Comment 39 for bug 21790

(In reply to comment #38)
> I now have kernel images available on
> http://people.ubuntu.com/~tfheen/noinotify/ . Please
> test those and see if the problem goes away.
>
> (To verify whether you have inotify or not available, grep for inotify in
> /proc/slabinfo)

I checked this with my "normal" kernel and do indeed find inotify entries so the
standard kernel does have them. I've also installed the linux images you
provided, confirmed that inotify is not present [No matches in /proc/slabinfo],
however I still experience disk throughput problems when a gnome session is running.