Hi, I also just suffered this problem in Natty. Memory usage peaked at over 12gb virtual and the operation lasted for over 10 minutes. The memory situation resolved after this time with the udisks-daemon process ending, but palimpsest indicates that it's still waiting for the bootable flag operation to complete by the spinning circles in the partition. The partition was mounted at the time. I was trying to invert the bootable flag state, i.e. for device sdb1 to have 'bootable', and for device sb2 to not have the flag.
david@desktop:~$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 1 13 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sdb2 * 13 14594 117115904 7 HPFS/NTFS Linux desktop 2.6.38-8-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 11 03:31:24 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/689593 Title: 2x100% CPU and memory usage growth when setting bootable flag in palimpsest To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/udisks/+bug/689593/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
