Dear all who think this bug is taking too long: You're right. It's been outstanding for quite some time now, and really should have been fixed before release, or else the 2.6.32 kernel shouldn't have been accepted.
As it is, the bug is not fixed. The best people for the job are the linux kernel devs, not ubuntu employees/contributors. They have a patch and are in the process of reviewing it. Believe me when I tell you that you want them to finish reviewing it. Once it's accepted, it'll be pushed in the next 2.6.32 maintenance release. I expect to see this in .15, if it's not already in .14 (which got pushed a last week and since I haven't been following this patch, I don't know if it's in there). If it goes in .15, it'll be another few weeks to couple of months. Once that happens, the ubuntu people can package it up and release it as a maintenance update. Depending on the climate, you may also see this patch in a newer, backported kernel (2.6.33 and above), so if you enable backports you might see it sooner. Either way, there's nothing you can do except either wait for a newer kernel or downgrade to an older kernel (2.6.31 is a good choice, as evidenced by some people above). Another way to soften the blow of this bug is simply to give the load balancer less to do. I've noticed that, while it certainly causes far more wakeups than it should, the wakeups *scale with the load* of the computer. Therefore, if you do all the things you normally do to reduce wakeups, the load balancer will be less of an issue as well. Whatever you choose to do (I'm just sticking with the kernel and living with the bug...it's not so bad with my usage pattern), be patient. You'll get the fix soon enough, and soon after that you'll forget it was ever a problem. <wink>If that's not enough for you, go install slackware.</wink> -- 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 [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
