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  1. Bug #620074
  2. Comment #474

Comment 474 for bug 620074

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In , nels.nielson (nels.nielson-linux-kernel-bugs) wrote :

I can also confirm this. Disabling swap with swapoff -a solves the problem.
I have 8gb of ram and 8gb of swap with a fake raid mirror.

Before this I couldn't do backups without the whole system grinding to a halt. Right now I am doing a backup from the drives, watching a movie from the same drives and more. No more iowait times and programs freezing as they are starved from being able to access the drives.