I think this may have something to do with gnome-wm. My .xsession-errors is continuously being written to (it's now 853M in size) with:
Window manager warning: Screen 0 on display ":0" already has a window manager; try using the --replace option to replace the current window manager. and gnome-wm seems to keep being respawned: paulm@noobuntu:~$ pgrep gnome-wm 4109 paulm@noobuntu:~$ pgrep gnome-wm paulm@noobuntu:~$ pgrep gnome-wm 4142 paulm@noobuntu:~$ pgrep gnome-wm paulm@noobuntu:~$ pgrep gnome-wm paulm@noobuntu:~$ pgrep gnome-wm 4252 paulm@noobuntu:~$ pgrep gnome-wm paulm@noobuntu:~$ pgrep gnome-wm 4330 Executing: killall gnome-wm seems to have stopped the respawning and now gconfd is not causing noticable IO -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/777558 Title: gconfd continuously writing to disk at more than 100K/s -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
