Tested it on Gentoo (2.6.16-gentoo-r9) on a 2-proc P4 3GHz with 2G ram and no swap, but could not reproduce it. This is while running xmms, konqueror, firefox, open office, and a bunch of xterms. CPU load did not go over 0.5.
Offhand, this sounds a lot like a memory leak in one of the applications you're using. At least, what you describe are exactly the symptoms one would expect in a memory leak situation. So, CPU load shouldn't be a factor. Since you only have 512M memory, your system is probably especially sensitive to memory leaks. However, 512M should be more than plenty of memory, so this situation is definitely a bug, somewhere. Assuming the problem is a memory leak, I'd suggest watching top or ps for a day to identify any particularly noteworthy applications, and then run valgrind on them. If you find one that definitely has a leak, then post that valgrind log here. -- system becomes unresponsive over the day https://launchpad.net/bugs/80263 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
