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  1. Bug #131094
  2. Comment #328

Comment 328 for bug 131094

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Jeremy Nickurak (nickurak) wrote :

I'm having this issue too, with x86-64 Lucid.

I'm on a 1.83Ghz Core2 Duo with 1.5gigs of ram, 2 gigs of swap, and a fast SATA hard drive.

This feels very much what would happen with an old computer when DMA was disabled... but of course this is a SATA hard drive, and I don't know how to confirm if it's configured properly.

It's plenty fast after a reboot, but at some point, it just gets barely usable. At apt-get upgrade will generally trigger it. Once it's there, it seems like a little hard drive IO and CPU just don't mix any more (as if DMA was disabled)