Comment 0 for bug 1299308

My laptop I have loaded with 13.10 and right off the bat I noticed that sometimes out of the blue the mouse would start skipping, the system would become unresponsive, and then completely lock up, only a power off would restore it. The next time I caught it and closed some apps right away and the system stayed alive, but following me opening more the behavior was reproduced. I started watching top while this happened and I see kswapd0 is active and my physical memory (only 2GB) is low prior to the system grinding to a halt. I'm operating an a sata3 ssd for disk and I have 2GB of swap space which was hardly used... bandwidth is lightning as you would expect so it's not like I have a slow swap space that I'm just waiting for (besides, it doesn't seem to ever wake up).

Bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/721896

... seems to have a number of users toward the end complaining of the same symptoms and they were directed to file something here, however I didn't see any responses back indicating that it had been done, and as my system is fully up to date I have to assume this issue remains.

Thanks,

Zach

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: linux-image-3.11.0-19-generic 3.11.0-19.33
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-19.33-generic 3.11.10.5
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-19-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.2
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: zdea 1817 F.... pulseaudio
Date: Fri Mar 28 21:05:30 2014
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=57e76561-68f3-44c5-b029-a0ac3cf31a65
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-03-01 (27 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64 (20131016.1)
MachineType: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. X401A1
MarkForUpload: True
ProcFB: 0 inteldrmfb
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.11.0-19-generic root=UUID=20063a7b-33e9-4c0d-a5e6-2dc154ed8552 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
RelatedPackageVersions:
 linux-restricted-modules-3.11.0-19-generic N/A
 linux-backports-modules-3.11.0-19-generic N/A
 linux-firmware 1.116.2
SourcePackage: linux
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 08/20/2012
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: X401A1.211
dmi.board.asset.tag: ATN12345678901234567
dmi.board.name: X401A1
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
dmi.board.version: 1.0
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
dmi.chassis.version: 1.0
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrX401A1.211:bd08/20/2012:svnASUSTeKCOMPUTERINC.:pnX401A1:pvr1.0:rvnASUSTeKCOMPUTERINC.:rnX401A1:rvr1.0:cvnASUSTeKCOMPUTERINC.:ct10:cvr1.0:
dmi.product.name: X401A1
dmi.product.version: 1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.