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?