On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 23:42 +0300, Perttu Muurimäki wrote: > Package: linux-2.6 > Version: 2.6.38-5 > Severity: important > > > Kworker processes consume more than half (on avarage) > of the other processor. Using the machine is quirky since it takes > 0.5-1 second pauses all the time. When typing normally I keep > loosing keypresses. > > I googled around and found this tip that I should use boot option > pcie_ports=compat or pcie_ports=native. Neither worked. If either is > used the machine > refuses to boot altogether and sends only the following error message: > > Alloc magic broken at 0x7ec2c2a0. > > The problem first occured the day before yesterday after my regular > apt-get dist-upgrade excercise. [...]
Please test version 2.6.39-1, without the VirtualBox modules loaded. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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