This is still happening very regularly (about 50% of the time I resume from suspend).
I've found that if I disable swap, something similar happens — very unresponsive system, massive disk activity, very high CPU activity (without it being attributed to any one process - according to top it's spending 95% of the time waiting for IO, but no processes are using much of the CPU). Without swap however, it takes 'forever' to recover - I waited an hour and then gave up.
I've found that the only thing which seems to help restore responsiveness is killing X with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace.
Some other possibly related info: I was recently on holiday using the laptop often without the power cable plugged in, which gives me different power settings, and I found for the week, this problem very rarely occurred. It might have been fluke, or it might have been related to the different power settings.
This is still happening very regularly (about 50% of the time I resume from suspend).
I've found that if I disable swap, something similar happens — very unresponsive system, massive disk activity, very high CPU activity (without it being attributed to any one process - according to top it's spending 95% of the time waiting for IO, but no processes are using much of the CPU). Without swap however, it takes 'forever' to recover - I waited an hour and then gave up.
I've found that the only thing which seems to help restore responsiveness is killing X with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace.
Some other possibly related info: I was recently on holiday using the laptop often without the power cable plugged in, which gives me different power settings, and I found for the week, this problem very rarely occurred. It might have been fluke, or it might have been related to the different power settings.