Re: Huge instability and insanely large memory footprint in 9.04

2009-09-29 Thread Evan
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 8:19 AM, Evan wrote: > On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 7:40 AM, Marius Gedminas wrote: > >> On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 04:46:21AM -0700, J. Lennard wrote: >> > First I'm sorry to write what may appear as a rant, but I hope it is >> > not considered so. I'm writing to express huge in

Re: Huge instability and insanely large memory footprint in 9.04

2009-09-25 Thread Daniel Chen
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Patrick Goetz wrote: >  7668 pgoetz    20   0  160m  17m  12m S    1  0.5  42:56.50 pulseaudio Note that you can disable PA's mempool implementation. We also cache /usr/share/sounds/ubuntu/stereo/* . Of course, from your top (not really a good indicator of memory

Re: Huge instability and insanely large memory footprint in 9.04

2009-09-25 Thread Patrick Goetz
Conrad Knauer wrote: > > I'm going to guess, without seeing his machine, that it's something > with Firefox... it could be a malfunctioning extension, it could be > some script on an otherwise normal page... I would try backing up my > ~/.mozilla folder and seeing if running FF fresh solves the pr

Re: Huge instability and insanely large memory footprint in 9.04

2009-09-25 Thread John Moser
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 7:46 AM, J. Lennard wrote: > Hi list, > > First I'm sorry to write what may appear as a rant, but I hope it is not > considered so. I'm writing to express huge instability problems in Ubuntu > 9.04. I migrated from ubuntu 8.04 (386) to ubuntu 9.04 (amd64) using a simple

Re: Huge instability and insanely large memory footprint in 9.04

2009-09-25 Thread David MENTRE
Hello, 2009/9/18 J. Lennard : > I don't really know where to start. During past month, my machine constantly > went to trashing mode where the hard-disk light is constantly on and I can't > access anything or even swtich to linux console for several *minutes*. As somebody else suggested, have y

Re: Huge instability and insanely large memory footprint in 9.04

2009-09-25 Thread Evan
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 7:40 AM, Marius Gedminas wrote: > On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 04:46:21AM -0700, J. Lennard wrote: > > First I'm sorry to write what may appear as a rant, but I hope it is > > not considered so. I'm writing to express huge instability problems in > > Ubuntu 9.04. I migrated fro

Re: Huge instability and insanely large memory footprint in 9.04

2009-09-25 Thread Marius Gedminas
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 04:46:21AM -0700, J. Lennard wrote: > First I'm sorry to write what may appear as a rant, but I hope it is > not considered so. I'm writing to express huge instability problems in > Ubuntu 9.04. I migrated from ubuntu 8.04 (386) to ubuntu 9.04 (amd64) > using a simple clean

Re: Huge instability and insanely large memory footprint in 9.04

2009-09-24 Thread Conrad Knauer
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Onkar Shinde wrote: >> You don't have enough RAM. 1 GB is pretty low by today's standards. You may >> be happier with xubuntu on a lower spec machine, but as you've got a fast >> CPU then you should get more RAM as it is a clear bottleneck. > > 1 GB may be less b

Re: Huge instability and insanely large memory footprint in 9.04

2009-09-24 Thread Ronan Mullally
Sorry to followup a followup, but: On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, George Farris wrote: > On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 15:08 -0400, Martin Owens wrote: > > XUbuntu should be used on PIII machines with 128->256MB of RAM and we > > normally have enough 128MB SDRAM sticks to upgrade them. But anything > > less and i

Re: Huge instability and insanely large memory footprint in 9.04

2009-09-24 Thread George Farris
Sorry for the top post but did you check trackerd? I have had to kill that rotten ba***rd off many times for using cpu. Cheers On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 15:08 -0400, Martin Owens wrote: > Hey Caroline, > > On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 18:58 +0100, Caroline Ford wrote: > > > > You don't have enoug

Re: Huge instability and insanely large memory footprint in 9.04

2009-09-24 Thread Martin Owens
Hey Caroline, On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 18:58 +0100, Caroline Ford wrote: > > You don't have enough RAM. 1 GB is pretty low by today's standards. > You may be happier with xubuntu on a lower spec machine, but as you've > got a fast CPU then you should get more RAM as it is a clear > bottlenec

Re: Huge instability and insanely large memory footprint in 9.04

2009-09-24 Thread Onkar Shinde
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Caroline Ford wrote: > You don't have enough RAM. 1 GB is pretty low by today's standards. You may > be happier with xubuntu on a lower spec machine, but as you've got a fast > CPU then you should get more RAM as it is a clear bottleneck. 1 GB may be less by toda

Re: Huge instability and insanely large memory footprint in 9.04

2009-09-24 Thread Evan
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 7:46 AM, J. Lennard wrote: > Hi list, > > First I'm sorry to write what may appear as a rant, but I hope it is not > considered so. I'm writing to express huge instability problems in Ubuntu > 9.04. I migrated from ubuntu 8.04 (386) to ubuntu 9.04 (amd64) using a > simple

Re: Huge instability and insanely large memory footprint in 9.04

2009-09-24 Thread Caroline Ford
2009/9/18 J. Lennard > Hi list, > > First I'm sorry to write what may appear as a rant, but I hope it is not > considered so. I'm writing to express huge instability problems in Ubuntu > 9.04. I migrated from ubuntu 8.04 (386) to ubuntu 9.04 (amd64) using a > simple clean install. > > While the i

Huge instability and insanely large memory footprint in 9.04

2009-09-24 Thread J. Lennard
Hi list, First I'm sorry to write what may appear as a rant, but I hope it is not considered so. I'm writing to express huge instability problems in Ubuntu 9.04. I migrated from ubuntu 8.04 (386) to ubuntu 9.04 (amd64) using a simple clean install. While the installation and boot process was b