Comment 31 for bug 21790

(In reply to comment #30)
> (In reply to comment #28)
>
> > For example, you can try disabling inotify as I requested in comment #17.
>
> I've tried booting with "noinotify" appended to the grub boot string and see no
> change (IO is still slow when logged into GNOME). I'm not sure if inotify *has*
> actually been disabled - is there any way I could tell?

If you boot with inotify, dmesg should show something (I guess) - and - in
/dev/, there should be an inotify device if inotify started