Thanks KhaaL. Juan Flynn suggested that I check the temperature to make sure no throttling is taking place. I'll give that a shot tonight.
So far, the possibilities are some driver issue or some sort of hardware throttling issue. I ran hdparm -i /dev/sda on my work machine (which does not have this issue). I'll post the results from my laptop next. ** Attachment added: "Work machine" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/45569091/hdparm-i-work.txt -- Heavy Disk I/O harms desktop responsiveness https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/131094 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
