[Bug 131094] Re: Heavy Disk I/O harms desktop responsiveness

[Peter Hoeg]

For whatever it's worth, I'm seeing a separate issue where X leaks
memory like crazy, which obviously has the interesting effect that I see
impressive disk thrashing, and this is with swap turned off. As soon as
free memory drops to a few 100 MBs, then my HDD light is pretty much lit
up solid and everything slows to a complete crawl. This is with the
.35-22 kernel (standard maverick generic kernel).

So something generates a lot of IO (what I still don't know) and when
that happens, nothing works except for the 3 finger salute.

I'm willing to try pretty much anything if somebody can tell me what I
should do or what information to provide.

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Heavy Disk I/O harms desktop responsiveness
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