Comment 273 for bug 131094

I totally agree. It seems to be a long standing issue and it seems it's just getting more and more worse every time. Now when I want to do anything reasonable which involves disk I/O (even just copying a CD image from one disk to another, or dist-upgrade) I let the machine to do, and I go for a coffee, since the machine is simply unusable during it. I noticed it earlier but as I've mentioned it seems it's getting more and more worse with every new kernels. I still remember the good old days with debian (maybe with 2.4 kernels or at least early 2.6 ones) when even the hardest I/O tasks can't interrupt even playing audio from the same disk: now I have to pray not to be interrupted even when the machine is idle and got some a very short I/O task from some process ... And btw I had much weaker hw before ...