It also happened on my amd64 today. I was trying to kill a crashed firefox/objdump/java-vm (together eating 2GB of non-shared memory). When that didn't work, I killed the apport process, and the kernel went mad.
The relevant line from top: 13784 mstreek 22 5 1804m 1.6g 536 D 0 80.7 0:09.45 objcopy ** Attachment added: "Same BUG log, for amd64" http://librarian.launchpad.net/4295641/bug.amd64 -- OOPS when killing apport https://launchpad.net/bugs/59935 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
