Comment 792 for bug 993187

476 users and still no attention from the developers. 8 MONTHS after the release of Ubuntu 12.04 and still having whole system freezes on a daily basis. In two fully different computers, with the i386 and amd64 versions of Ubuntu 12.04.

Users that turn their computers off after a several hours session will almost never notice the freezes. It is us users who want to leave our computers running for more than one day, who are suffering this problem. The average running time before a whole system freeze is about 10 hours, though sometimes it may happen in much shorter/longer time. Please somebody explain me that, or I will start elaborating conspirational theories, because it really FEELS as there is a hidden timer in the kernel, with an random average pre-set running time around ten hours.

Is this part of some fight against P2P piracy? My teenage eMule times are far beyond, and I don't much know about how the corresponding programs work today, but I badly need to run numerical simulations at home, and some of them take about 3 days. Most times they are ruined by these freezes. I already have changed the distro to an older Fedora in one of the computers, so that my simulations run fine there. But my laptop still has (K)ubuntu 12.04. I am still waiting, hoping and apt-get updating, for months now. But I am getting tired. I may give up soon and say goodbye to a long, personal tradition of confidence on Ubuntu. I am getting sick of waking up in the morning, going to the computer and seeing that it has frozen again during the night.