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  1. Bug #620074
  2. Comment #615

Comment 615 for bug 620074

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In , mikhail.v.gavrilov (mikhail.v.gavrilov-linux-kernel-bugs) wrote :

(In reply to comment #601)
> I/O wait isn't consuming CPU time but the process of reading/writing disks
> does
> consume CPU time because the process is doing work in the kernel managing the
> I/O and the things that go with it.

Alan, if I understand you correctly why kernel don't switch to another process until current process waiting I/O?

For example why GUI (means GNOME Shell) brakes while another application do swap or much writes to disk?