--- "Kevin J. Cummings" <cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 01/17/2011 10:52 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > Hi, folks. Before I file a bug on this I was > wondering if anyone else > > had seen it and hoping to get a better idea of > exactly what's happening. > > > > Lately, on this machine - a laptop running F14 - > it seems that every so > > often, gnome-settings-daemon, firefox and one > other process (I forget > > which, something else that's part of GNOME I > think) suddenly go crazy, > > pegging out the CPU (which is dual-core) entirely > and also showing huge > > virtual size (virt column in top) - in the 60-70GB > range. One thing that > > sometimes triggers this is, sometimes, trying to > play some music in > > audacious; usually it works, but sometimes it > returns 'input/output > > error', PulseAudio crashes, and this bug happens > immediately. But > > sometimes the same problem with > gnome-settings-daemon and firefox > > happens without being triggered by loading music. > > > > Has anyone else seen this? Any ideas what's going > on? > > No idea, but I often see similar: F14 x86_64 laptop > (2GB ram), firefox > w/Flash Square. Just when I really need to use the > computer, the load > average goes through the roof (> 8). The machine > starts swapping, > firefox's memory usage grows large (multi-GB), and > the machine becomes > *very* unresponsive until whatever it was trying to > do finally finishes. > Sometime I can fix it by logging out and logging in > again, other times > I have to reboot. Right now my load average is > around 3.3. That seems > a bit high for a system not doing very much other > than writing an email > (thunderbird) with about 30 different tabs open in > firefox not doing > anything, and 4 gnome-terminals open waiting at > command prompts. > > I too suspect that firefox and audio is at the heart > of the problem, but > I can't prove it. > The only times things like this happens to me is when Flash misbehaves. Jump to tty2 and run htop or top (whatever you like -- htop just makes this more obvious) and see which process is freaking out and kill it. And while we're talking about flash (and not to start a flame war, just to present some humor)... This awesome quote was posted the other day on a security mailing list in a thread about all the holes that have emerged in Flash lately: "Personally, I kind of like Flash. It gives me a single kill switch for 90% of the useless blinking crap and popups on the internet. Flash is a really appropriate name for exactly what I don't want to see on a web page. I hope it remains the platform of choice for those who develop such things." - Marsh Ray -------------------------------------- Get the new Internet Explorer 8 optimized for Yahoo! JAPAN http://pr.mail.yahoo.co.jp/ie8/ -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
