Initial problem

Several times a single LXC guest became unreachable, the host's  "load" started to rise slowly but continously up to ~1000 (!) and more, fortunately with the host still allowing to login via ssh but unfortunately with only one way out: Reset button. Ouch. WTF.

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Therefore we packaged (Debianized) the most-recent upstream kernel modul.
We are currently unsure wether DRBD has anything to do with the problem, but are still maintaining those packages, see Debian jessie builds of DKMSed upstream DRBD8 Kernel Module. 

Solution: Patching DRBD 8 kernel module

See bottom of Ever-rising load on Debian jessie + DRBD8 + LXC host pairs.