https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=465270

--- Comment #5 from John <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Vlad Zahorodnii from comment #1)
> kwin periodically needs to access the disk, that's inevitable. We change the
> scheduling policy for the main thread and libinput thread to RR. Not sure
> that there's anything else we can do atm. If there are freezes, please check
> whether changing the file system type helps, ftr I haven't experienced
> severe issues with ext4.

It might be inevitable, but that doesn't mean that it's right to do that!
I have never seen Windows XP - 7 (the only ones that I used) to ever have the
graphical interface and the interactions with it ever freeze or slow down.
There is definitely something plain wrong or unoptimized into what Kwin is
doing since a disk IO, no matter how heavy it can make it freeze or slow down.
Plus, there's a reason why besides the disk(s) there's also RAM storage type.
Why isn't the whole Plasma session loaded entirely into RAM, where RAM storage
is pleynty and then make Kwin sync (read / write) from RAM only and only from
time to time write something to disk?
As for the filesystem, checking if this problems happen with another filesystem
time is too hard to do as it requires a full back / restore + reinstallation of
the OS, something I'm not prepared to do now.
And also I don't care if it's not happening on the old EXT4 one as I moved to
BRFS for the extra features that it has and I don't plane to move back to EXT4
ever.
So, this problem is either fixed for BTRFS and comparable in features
filesystems or I will ever consider it unfixed and a problem in KDE software.

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