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Comment 17 for bug 131094

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Tobias Oetiker (tobi-oetiker) wrote : Re: [Bug 131094] Re: Heavy Disk I/O harms desktop responsiveness

Today Julien Olivier wrote:

> Tobias,
>
> as I said, I have upgraded to gutsy recently, so I do have kernel
> 2.6.22, and I still have speed problems. Whether or not the kernel is
> the culprit is still a mystery to me though.
>
> Someone said that the problems seem to persist when you upgrade from
> feisty (versus a fresh install), so maybe I have inherited wrong values
> in /proc/sys/vm/dirty_* ?

this is highly unlikely ... check /etc/sysctl.conf to see if there
are any explicit settings

> I would be really pleased to help, so if there is anything I can test,
> I'm ready to help.
>
> PS: I installed kernel 2.6.20 from feisty and booted on it, and it
> didn't change anything.

in that case I am fresh out of ideas unfortunately.

cheers
tobi

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