[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 524281] Re: Tens of wakes per second in "[kernel scheduler] Load balancing tick" on Core 2 Duo even with only 1 core enabled

I have a Dell Mini 10v and managed to get good results with Natty (11.04) after some fiddling around. It's better than any other version I had till now (I have been following this bug since its beginning!). Without wireless I get 20ms C3 state, and with wireless one around 3ms C3 state (with no app

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 297143] Re: Xorg eats processor cycles while waiting for slow Internet

I get similar 12% CPU utilization from both Xorg and thunderbird/firefox. I'm using Ubuntu 11.04, Thunderbird/3.1.10. In Thunderbird the problem doesn't happen from the progress bar (which I guess is GTK Theme dependent) but from the rotating 'hourglass' in the top-left corner at the top of the