Comment 178 for bug 524281

florinn:
that's my experience too, 2.6.37 makes my laptop silent again, and the load balancing ticks are much, much fewer.

I see that you run the RC2 version of 2.6.37, just thought I'd mention that the final version of 2.6.37 is out on http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/. The name says "Natty", but it runs fine on Maverick as well :)

You may want to try the 2.6.38RC2 Natty kernel as well - It seems very fast, but in my experience this kernel made my laptop run hotter and the fans run all the time - but I guess that's a separate issue ;)