As said before I'm willing to help with debugging and testing. If someone knows how to debug this please let me know.
On my laptop I can easily reproduce it by following these steps: - install chromium browser: $ sudo apt-get install chromium-browser - install the Adobe flash plugin (you might need to enable the Canonical Partners repo) $ sudo apt-get install adobe-flashplugin - open Chromium browser and go to youtube or any other website with flash videos -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1488426 Title: High CPU usage of kworker/ksoftirqd Status in HWE Next: New Status in linux package in Ubuntu: In Progress Bug description: kworker consuming 71.5% cpu resource ksoftirqd consuming 28.9% cpu resource It leads to power consumption issue and sometimes leads to BT does not work. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/hwe-next/+bug/1488426/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp