Disk I/O activity affects net speed

[polochamps]

Ubuntu 16.04

I just noticed that when I run a game from my non-OS drive, the net speed output seems to be affected. Resetting unity doesn't seem to fix the issue. Restarting the PC might fix it but I really want to know what bug is triggering this behavior.

Games installed on OS drive also run on internet so I can't test it
Also noticed it when verifying a 10GB .mkv on Transmission

Here's a screenshot - http://i.imgur.com/WbI2PmS.png

Thanks!

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[fossfreedom]

hmm - sounds like a bug in psutils.

Are you running Ubuntu 16.04 is a single core virtual machine? If yes, then all processing will be passing through that same virtual core - that will affect the results.

If you are using a multicore machine then yes more likely that psutils.net_io_counters is being affected by some of the similar functions that deal with disk io.

[polochamps]

No. I'm running it natively on a quad core processor.