I waited 13 hours, with no visible change from this morning: screen
blank, no response to mouse or stylus movement (though both devices'
LEDs light up when moved), hard drive light steady and audibly chugging
away. I was mistaken about there being no keyboard response: there was,
only with about a 30 second delay before the LEDs responded. [ctrl-alt-
backspace] and [ctrl-alt-F#] did not seem to do anything: I did not
observe any change in drive activity and after 5 minutes there was no
change to the display.

I pushed the power button for 5 seconds, the machine powered off. I
waited a few minutes before turning it back on again. The system booted
normally and appears functional, so long as I stay away from vlc,
k9copy, and open office. I haven't tried very hard to see what other
programs might trigger the runaway memory.

Please, what do I need to do to get to the bottom of this?

thank you.

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process consumes all ram, reading X keyboard settings over and over again
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330424
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