Again, this time under karmic. new strace attached.
This part is hilarious: top - 00:25:55 up 3 days, 21:42, 15 users, load average: 0.37, 0.25, 0.19 Tasks: 262 total, 5 running, 257 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 31.0%us, 1.2%sy, 0.0%ni, 66.6%id, 1.1%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 5986520k total, 5914424k used, 72096k free, 3348k buffers Swap: 8000328k total, 3733652k used, 4266676k free, 79068k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 4404 in4mer 20 0 7360m 4.2g 3676 R 95 74.1 477:19.18 gnome-panel 4.2g resident, 7.36 gig virtual, and growing. And of course, since the scheduler sucks, just one looping process like this absolutely wrecks the usability of the mouse & keyboard, even on a four processor machine at 4.0Ghz ** Attachment added: "strace output from running(hung, looping) gnome-panel" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36359345/strace-gnome-panel.log -- gnome-panel freeze/infinite loop/memory leak https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/432794 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs