I've filed this as kernel bug #129172 with some more details, and a tarball of diagnostics (/proc, dmesg etc).
I hope i did the right thing filing a new bug, since this isn't really an installer-specific problem. -- AMD64-alternate installer *extremely* slow on Quad Core https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/128977 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs