Public bug reported:
the problem is that sometimes, after the triggering of some event, the machine
becomes progressively very slow so that i am to ctrl-alt-backspace to force the
closing of the Gnome session. Some event seems to trigger the slowness which
become more and more important: for example the mouse pointer does not respond
instantly to the mouse movement. A mouse click will not take effect instantly.
When the slowness comes in, i can see the following:
- constant disk access
- i have the System Monitor on my gnome panel: the load (in red) is becoming
more and more important to reach about five (the little black box becomes
progressively red)
- the cpu indicator of the System Monitor shows many many picks very close to
each other so that you cannot see some black color in the box, but it is rather
light blue
- when I could use "top" to look at the processes, more and more processes
appeared with a "D" status (which is defined as "uninterruptible sleep" in the
top man page).
The first time the problem occured i was browsing with Firefox. Is is not that
as soon as I launched Firefox, the machine would become slower; it is that at
some later time an event triggered that made appear progressively the slowness.
So I installed epiphany, and it seemed that i did not get the problem anymore:
but later I wanted to see the site
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/tracking/ and epiphany asked me to
download the applet but it did not work, so i suspected the java plugin not
configured for epiphany, so i configured it and then I relauched epiphany and
went back to the above site and the slowness started to appear ...
I think I can reproduce the problem by trying to executing a Java applet, but
that is not sure. I will try again the above applet and will let you know.
this problem started to appear about 10 days ago and I can't trace back what I
did or what changed which created the problem. Maybe an online update.
I have Ubuntu 6.10, kernel 2.6.17-11. My machine is an IBM Netvista A21 (CPU =
Celeron 1GHz, RAM = 256MB, Chipset = Intel 82810).
** Affects: Ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
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system becomes very slow
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/120912
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