While your issue sounds similar to my fixed issue, it's ultimately a different problem. Under my issue, the system completely locked up without warning or cause and could not be unfrozen... my problem was with 99% certainty something buggy in the kernel and not related specifically to ubuntu as it affected many other distros.
Omm-killer is not causing the problem or is anything to be concerned about, it simply frees up memory when system resources are low. From your description, it sounds like your problem is something USB (possibly ssb) or networking related (B43 or ndiswrapper) is causing a delayed freeze. I suggest you fill out a completely new bug report. Here are some of the differences between your issue and mine: Process monitors didn't show any abnormal memory spikes such as in your case with XOrg and your load applet. - "I've run a system monitor and there is not a process eating 100% of the memory" Also, your issue still allows for things to be entered into logs, my issue completely froze the system. - "I don't think it's kernel related as there's nothing useful in the log... there are no useful messages in the system log" It seems Firefox is exclusively causing your issue, whereas with mine it was anything that used a lot of resources - "When using any memory intensive program, such as Firefox 3, VLC, gnash, transferring large files (100MB+) etc." -- Memory intensive programs cause lockups https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/267836 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
