--- "Kevin J. Cummings" <cummings(a)kjchome.homeip.net>
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
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