Comment 228 for bug 131094

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Jamie Lokier (jamie-shareable) wrote : Re: [Bug 131094] Re: Heavy Disk I/O harms desktop responsiveness

Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote:
> Providing a testing kernel package would really be great! Then it would
> make sense to ask people to confirm the bug is still here. Though we
> have learned that I/O and responsiveness are very difficult to measure -
> not sure we'll be able to clearly confirm anything on a so large
> thread... ;-)

There are several reports that copying a large file always make the
desktop very slow, so that should be simple to test - on those systems.