Comment 357 for bug 131094

actually hit slashdot quite a while ago, might have missed my comments:

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/15/049201

Latest comment on the bugzilla report: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12309 states that new patches has fixed the issue.

I won't jump up for joy yet until I see it for myself. Can anyone do a ppa for the newer kernel 2.6.36 to test?

FYI turning off swap, setting swappiness or changing the scheduler makes no difference to me. Always slow.

If messing with the swap works for you, try: swapoff -a && swapon -a as well