Comment 168 for bug 524281

Just installed the 2.6.36 mainline kernel from http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.36-maverick/.

VMWare Player is not working, but that's another story.

[kernel scheduler] Load balancing tick = 2.3
[extra timer interrupt] = 11.7

Total interrupts under idle conditions = 66.7 (earlier it was ~180).

Ok, now we know the story, or at-least a part of it.
We will all be a happy breed of people if the fixes are back ported to the latest stable release of Maverick from the Ubuntu repository. So if we do a 'sudo apt-get update && upgrade" we should get the patches applied and don't have to fiddle with unsupported releases of the core of the OS.

I am keeping my fingers crossed. VMWare is not working as of now, PS/2 interrupts are still very high and might discover a thing or 2 later, but as of now, with the 2.6.36, the issue seems to be resolved. Will feel a lot more satisfied after the fixed version lands up through the official repo on a officially supported release (2.6.35 at the moment).