I can confirm this on a fresh install of 8.04, kernel 2.6.24-16-generic.
Any sustained disk I/O causes other apps to become unresponsive.
I don’t get how this was not caught in beta, because it has the
capability to render my system unusable.
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Heavy Disk I/O harms desktop responsiveness
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Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager
Adding a new bug because this has appeared as a regression in Gutsy. (I
turned up old problems with this on a Google search, but the bug reports
have been closed for over a year.)
gnome-power-manager 2.20.0-0ubuntu6
Linux soyuz 2.6.20
I’m seeing this problem too; Googling “gnome-power-manager suspend when
unplugged” comes up with an ancient bug from nearly 18 months ago which
seems to have been *fixed* in g-p-m 2.13. I didn’t see this issue on
Feisty; it appeared when I ran the upgrade program to Gutsy.
Running Gutsy 7.10 relea
Also getting this bug in Feisty 7.04, with Linux 2.6.20-16-generic i686.
Kernel bug message is attached even though it matches previously submitted
copies.
Active process at the time of crash was Pidgin.
** Attachment added: "relevant dmesg output"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/8077536/dmesg
