On a little used desktop the script from comment 25 failed after 117 iterations, on the principal desktop, which has seemed slow recently, the script failed on the first iteration attempt! Both machines running kernel 3.5.0-22
uname -a
Linux ionman 3.5.0-22-generic #34-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jan 8 21:47:00 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
The new kernel 3.5.0-23 behaves correctly against the script.
On a little used desktop the script from comment 25 failed after 117 iterations, on the principal desktop, which has seemed slow recently, the script failed on the first iteration attempt! Both machines running kernel 3.5.0-22
uname -a
Linux ionman 3.5.0-22-generic #34-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jan 8 21:47:00 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
The new kernel 3.5.0-23 behaves correctly against the script.