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Using keyboard cause i/o wait?...



Hi,
I recently did a fresh install of Debian 7 on my machine. Everything is running smootly but I have an issue that is bugging me...
Whenever I hit a button on the keyboard, I hear the drive writing stuff so I did a little investigation.
Seems the ext4 journal is doing something everytime I hit a key, if I hold any key(backspace) I can see the process jdb2/dm-0-8 taking all my i/o.

iotop while holding backspace:
Total DISK READ:       0.00 B/s | Total DISK WRITE:      14.92 K/s
  TID  PRIO  USER     DISK READ  DISK WRITE  SWAPIN     IO>    COMMAND 
177 be/3 root        0.00 B/s    0.00 B/s  0.00 % 82.15 % [jbd2/dm-0-8]

stats when not pressing anything and then holding backspace
root@inflames:~# while true; do date; ps auxf | awk '{if($8=="D") print $0;}'; sleep 1; done
Sat May 25 13:36:19 EDT 2013
Sat May 25 13:36:20 EDT 2013
Sat May 25 13:36:21 EDT 2013
Sat May 25 13:36:22 EDT 2013
Sat May 25 13:36:23 EDT 2013
root       177  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        D    13:08   0:00  \_ [jbd2/dm-0-8]
Sat May 25 13:36:24 EDT 2013
root       177  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        D    13:08   0:00  \_ [jbd2/dm-0-8]
Sat May 25 13:36:25 EDT 2013
root       177  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        D    13:08   0:00  \_ [jbd2/dm-0-8]
Sat May 25 13:36:26 EDT 2013
root       177  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        D    13:08   0:00  \_ [jbd2/dm-0-8]

Kernel:
root@inflames:~# uname -a
Linux inflames 3.2.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.2.41-2+deb7u2 i686 GNU/Linux

Anyone has any idea what might be causing this? Why would using my keyboard be causing this?
Thanks,

InFlames

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