Sure it's a meta bug, but for me 12309 is still actual, and I don't use any tuning for I/O subsystem at all.
Not as bad as years ago when it happens for the first time, but I still have to throttle rtorrent to download at 2.5MB/sec maximum instead of usual 10MB/s if I like to view films in mplayer at same time without jitter/freeze/lag. And that's on powerful and modern enough system with kernel 4.19.27, CPU i7-2600K @ 4.5GHz, RAM 24GB, and HDD 3TB Western Digital Caviar Green WD30EZRX-00D. This is annoying, and I remember time before 12309 when rtorrent without any throttling won't make mplayer to freeze on less powerful hardware. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/336652 Title: Poor system performance under I/O load Status in Linux: Fix Released Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: This bug seems to particularly affect the Dell Latitude D420, D430 and (from the kernel.org bug) at least the D830 laptop models; but others have been reported. Under I/O load, which need not be excessive - running usb-creator or even just checking one's email - the system performs remarkably poorly, far less than other laptop users see. It can often take minutes to open a window, and sometimes the screen isn't repainted. Certainly most applications are "dimmed" by Compiz under I/O. It also appears to massively negatively affect boot performance, with one core spending its entire time in I/O wait - something we don't see elsewhere. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/linux/+bug/336652/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
