Have tried 3.2.24-030224-generic from kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel- ppa/mainline/v3.2.24-precise and get similar results:-
top - 16:15:12 up 7 min, 4 users, load average: 2.82, 1.07, 0.43 Tasks: 194 total, 2 running, 192 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu0 : 7.4%us, 3.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 56.8%id, 31.7%wa, 0.0%hi, 1.1%si, 0.0%st Cpu1 : 2.0%us, 3.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 89.0%id, 5.7%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu2 : 10.2%us, 1.7%sy, 0.0%ni, 40.3%id, 47.8%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu3 : 1.7%us, 0.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 9.4%id, 88.6%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 8058896k total, 7457592k used, 601304k free, 2974216k buffers Swap: 8267772k total, 0k used, 8267772k free, 2389896k cached -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1030516 Title: 152d:2338 High IO when writing to USB devices To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1030516/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
