On my notebook (fujitsu-siemens amilopro v3505): writing large file on a pendrive:
------------------ noop ------------------ elapsed: 19' 31" avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 4.77 0.00 14.39 49.16 0.00 35.82 no slowdown, all good... ------------------ anticipatory ------------------ elapsed: 19' 24" avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 4.04 0.00 12.87 53.54 0.00 31.16 minor slodown moving windows or writing to the internal disk. ------------------ deadline ------------------ elapsed: 19' 44" avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 6.76 0.00 10.38 46.15 0.00 37.59 minor slodown moving windows or writing to the internal disk. ------------------ cfq ------------------ Elapsed: 27' 35" avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 0.59 0.00 10.12 88.76 0.00 1.29 everything is slow, and some time locked... ------------------------------------------- What I can say is that at home, yesterday, I never seen the iowait over 40%. The fact that it does not happen on every pc explain why cfq is the default... -- elevator=cfq (default) cause starvation https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/381300 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs