Comment 121 for bug 524281

I think that this bug is affecting my machine too (xps 1330m) and in few minutes after the boot the "load balancing tick" spikes between 400 and 500 and everything gets unusable. it's too slow even to surf or watch a move. i've been using ubuntu since 06.10 but untill this gets fixed i'm enough desperate to use vista instead.

Right now i'm using 2.6.35-power3-generic and this is my powertop result:

63.6% (404.1) [kernel scheduler] Load balancing tick
   2.7% ( 16.9)D chrome
   5.2% ( 33.0) docky
   3.7% ( 23.6) [Rescheduling interrupts] <kernel IPI>
   3.0% ( 19.1) desktopcouch-se