Since some days this happens to me too. Is this bug not duplicate or related to bug 501715 ? At least I think it is ureadahead fault, because htop doesn't display any process consuming that much of memory.
In a Kubuntu 10.04 system with only Firefox running, the swap is now 890 MB full, in Karmic it was at most ~130 MB used. After I disactivate the swap, the system becomes very slow, and then the programs start to crash. Only restarting helps, but for about 2-3 hours. free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 1470 1223 246 0 10 783 -/+ buffers/cache: 430 1040 Swap: 2070 890 1180 -- My swap memory gets full after 5-6hours of computer usage on 10.04 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/560859 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs