Yes, I also noticed that running a virtual machine in VirtualBox is almost guaranteed to start this issue immediately – apart from the sporadic occurrences when having the system with Firefox and Thunderbird run for several days and doing hibernate/resume over night.
Anthony, is this the PPA you are talking about? https://launchpad.net/~canonical-kernel-team/+archive/ppa I'd also like to give this a try, as this kswapd0/high IO load thingy has been a real bummer for many months now... Thanks for the pointer. :-) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/721896 Title: kswapd0 100% cpu usage To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/721896/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs