Comment 68 for bug 574910

I've been experiencing times of high load reported when the machine is otherwise idle. I've also been experiencing sudden spikes in load (40+) when the machine is doing minimal work (CPU 50% idle), few processes running.

Is anybody able to confirm whether or not the fix from 20100827 solves these problems? (http://uec-images.ubuntu.com/releases/lucid/release/).

My issues are also real problems (unresponsiveness, even in already open shells) and do not seem to be entirely due to just the way load is calculated...

Rod, in #67, your comment implies that the new kernel does indeed fix your real unresponsiveness issue.