klogd dd slowing system down drastically

Bug #309170 reported by Mikel Ward
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sysklogd (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

My laptop is very slow lately.

top shows this:
 4895 root 20 0 1940 544 448 R 52 0.0 70:06.60 dd
 4896 klog 20 0 4272 3008 444 S 40 0.1 53:08.16 klogd

and ps shows this:
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY STAT TIME CMD
root 4895 1 29 05:47 ? R 71:33 /bin/dd bs 1 if /proc/kmsg of /var/run/klogd/kmsg
klog 4896 1 22 05:47 ? Ss 54:02 /sbin/klogd -P /var/run/klogd/kmsg

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