The freezes began for me immediately after upgrading converting my
partitions from Ext3 to Ext4, but after speaking with other people in
the Ubuntu forums, that seems to be more of a coincidence than a cause.
Unfortunately, I picked a bad time to start using Ext4 since
Ubuntu/Kubuntu's instability has meant data loss. Most of my freezes
happen when I open Ktorrent, but it's not a consistent problem and isn't
limited to Ktorrent. Yesterday I had a freeze while reading a web page
in Firefox.

Transitioning back to Intrepid is too time-consuming. I am swamped with
work right now so I don't have the time to do it and I don't have the
time to keep dealing with these freezes when I should be working. If I'm
going to take the time to reinstall the OS, I'm going to install Debian
or something more stable or at least a distro where bugs like this are
high priority. I've been using Kubuntu for more than 2 years (since
Edgy) without a reinstall so if I'm going to do one I'm doing so with
the expectation that I'm in for the long haul with the distro. And this
current mess does not give me much faith for future Ubuntu releases.

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Clocksource tsc unstable leads to lockups in Ubuntu Jaunty
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/355155
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