Comment 160 for bug 620074

P5K, CPU - Core 2 Duo E8400, connected to the motherboards (ICH9) SATA - ST31000340AS, openSUSE 11.1, kernel - 2.6.28.3

yura@suse:~> dd if=/dev/zero of=test1 bs=1M count=1M
^C
128443+0 records in
128443+0 records out
134682247168 байт (135 GB), 1872,43 c, 71,9 MB/c

vmstat 1 (fragment)
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu----
 r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa
 1 7 0 46780 0 7750564 0 0 4880 12808 838 1491 2 3 0 95
 0 9 0 45480 0 7751004 0 0 1876 36888 1268 2506 2 5 0 93
 1 9 0 45420 0 7752056 0 0 7120 12296 705 1790 1 3 0 96
 0 7 0 43924 0 7751636 0 0 1416 36888 979 2178 3 4 0 93
 0 8 0 44148 0 7751480 0 0 900 28176 672 1444 2 3 0 95
 0 2 0 54144 0 7753008 0 0 2468 24680 649 1191 2 3 0 95
 0 11 0 46420 0 7757720 0 0 1508 72240 994 1696 2 7 2 88
 4 10 0 43348 0 7749244 0 0 5212 51212 1247 2436 6 6 0 87
 1 10 0 46256 0 7749752 0 0 1268 42504 799 1963 2 5 0 93
 0 1 0 45468 0 7757836 0 0 0 81959 1126 2249 1 9 6 84
 0 1 0 43880 0 7758912 0 0 0 71736 830 1818 1 8 31 60
 0 10 0 43280 0 7756472 0 0 0 59473 998 1879 1 5 8 85
 1 9 0 46832 0 7748176 0 0 0 81996 1114 2332 1 8 0 91
 0 10 0 46652 0 7747356 0 0 0 79920 867 1748 1 8 0 91
 0 10 0 45836 0 7747508 0 0 0 76848 1021 1947 1 8 0 91
 0 10 0 46724 0 7751964 0 0 0 52272 821 1775 1 6 0 93
 0 10 0 44388 0 7754660 0 0 0 77896 1054 2230 1 7 0 92
 0 6 0 45672 0 7755792 0 0 0 71736 1343 2886 1 7 0 91
 1 8 0 44624 0 7756444 0 0 0 77863 826 1736 0 7 0 92
 1 6 0 43132 0 7757664 0 0 0 63560 1036 1911 1 7 0 91
 0 3 0 43200 0 7757936 0 0 0 77896 721 1539 1 6 0 92
 1 11 0 46716 0 7760684 0 0 428 63544 1538 2789 12 8 0 79
 0 10 0 44808 0 7756940 0 0 6876 31248 1241 2857 4 4 0 91

The system dies. To call KDE main menu - it is the extremely inconvenient. About the rest - in general I am silent.