Il giorno sab, 23/05/2009 alle 13.10 +0200, Vincenzo Ciancia ha scritto: > Hi all, > > I am running jaunty. Sometimes, randomly, the disk starts spinning (I > hear the noise and see the light) and the system becomes unusable. > Often, to gain control of a shell (even in console) is a matter of > waiting minutes and eventually, when I finally can do some "top" "iotop" > or "ps" to understand what's happening, the storms is already calmed and > I can't see anything. I am not running trackerd on this machine (and > with last year of development, it's rarely the culprit).
It seems that I spoke too early: I restarted firefox that I had killed, and everything started swapping again. I was visiting three online newspapers and "top" reported a "RES" memory for ALL typical heavy processes (xorg, firefox, evolution, pidgin, skype) which was an order of magnitude bigger than ordinary (e.g. xorg around 500 mb, firefox more than 100mb and so on). The system had been suspended to ram and resumed some times and not rebooted for two days. I rebooted, reopened all the same applications, letting firefox restore its settings. Everything is normal now, the most memory hungry process is update-manager (I opened that too) at 55mb RES memory Perhaps this is a bug in the kernel related to suspend. I will investigate again the problem in the following days. thanks for your patience Vincenzo -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
