crappy schedular in 2.4.18?

[davidw@dedasys.com (David N. Welton)]

My tibook becomes almost unusable interactively when there is a lot of
disk activity (dselect unpackaging things, anacron running the find
job).  What's up with this?!

Thanks,
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