Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: apport
Ubuntu 7.10. apport 0.98.
If bug #214537 is re-created with apport enabled, i.e.
"/etc/init.d/apport start", then once the disc activity starts,
presumably because the machine is getting low on RAM, it never stops.
The machine gets very unresponsive, mouse movement stops, etc. It
doesn't improve despite leaving it for over ten minutes. Using the
Magic Alt-SysRq key I can kill off enough to get to a console, there
w(1) reports system load averages (e.g. run queue) of over 25 processes
for the previous 1, 5, and 15 minutes. This is on a single-user machine
doing very little.
Turning apport off and then re-creating the bug gives the behaviour
described in the bug report, i.e. a few seconds of disc activity before
firefox and gnash are killed by the kernel's OOM killer.
Conclusion, apport trying to handle the situation makes it far, far,
worse. I doubt the machine would ever have returned to normal. It
seems apport doesn't detect its work isn't going well and ends up
creating lots of run queue processes.
** Affects: apport (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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gnash Bug with apport Enabled Results in Very High Run Queue
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/214540
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