Comment 6 for bug 653815

I've now upgraded to Maverick and the bug is still present. This seems fairly critical, if only for people with this hardware config. Can anyone on ubuntu's kernel team provide some context regarding the addition of kslowd, links to upstream threads, etc?

Here are other reports of usage spikes with kslowd:

 * http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1594239
 * https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=105113
 * http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2010/6/16/4583805/thread
 * https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/595764
 * https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/662946

I'm now running the natty kernel (currently 2.6.36-1 generic) and the hiccups are gone