>BTW, I saw the same problem, though not with reading, but with writing
>to disk. See thread (well nobody answered to it yet):
>
>[2.6.10-rc1 and prev] System unuseable while writing to disk
>
>It really takes away the fun... :(
I am experiencing the same problem on my laptop. Audio skips while writing
bursts. I think it is the same for me ever since I switched to 2.6. (2.6.5
onwards).