I've tested Arch live iso and there is no problem with IO, both i386 and amd64, uname -a:
Linux archiso 3.12.6-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Dec 20 19:54:53 CET 2013 i686 GNU/Linux
Linux archiso 3.12.6-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Dec 20 19:39:00 CET 2013 x86_64 GNU/Linux
I've tested Arch live iso and there is no problem with IO, both i386 and amd64, uname -a:
Linux archiso 3.12.6-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Dec 20 19:54:53 CET 2013 i686 GNU/Linux
Linux archiso 3.12.6-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Dec 20 19:39:00 CET 2013 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Thus this issue is a combination of kernel + Ubuntu userland settings for my system. :/ unix.stackexcha nge.com/ questions/ 48138/how- to-throttle- per-process- i-o-to- a-max-limit ?
Does Ubuntu use cgroups for something like http://