I've had some success Daniel Hollocher's linux-ck ppa: https://launchpad.net/~chogydan/+archive/ppa
It doesn't fix everything, but the BFS making such a difference does make it clear this is a kernel issue and not just a few of us having strange hardware... --bornagainpenguin -- Tens of wakes per second in "[kernel scheduler] Load balancing tick" on Core 2 Duo even with only 1 core enabled https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/524281 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs