I am going to mark this bug as "Won't Fix" Maverick is EOL now and it is conjectured that the patches John referenced and that tracing was left on caused the problem. If this is still a problem on upgrades from Lucid to Precise, please file a new bug. Thanks.
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/602261 Title: Thrashing and OOM during upgrade from 10.04 to Maverick To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/602261/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs