** Description changed: Once in a while, a process called "ld-linux.so.2" starts consuming all - my system resources, with CPU usage between 90-100%, making the system - unresponsive, up to not being able to control the system anymore at all - (not even ALT-Fx'ing to a console). + my system resources, with CPU usage between 90-100%, my 2GB main memory + AND my complete swap partition used up completely, making the system + unresponsive to a degree that even single keystrokes need up to a minute + to get interpreted by the system. A forum post (http://tinyurl.com/5mdc9p) indicates that Adobe Reader 8 is the source of the problem. It claims that installing the "lsb" - package will solve the problem (I'm not sure if I can confirm this yet). + package will solve the problem. I can now confirm this does not fix the + problem. Instead, the acroread process itself will now turn out to be + the resource hog (no ld-linux.so.2 process is listed anymore by 'top' + though). + + Two known workarounds: + 1) uninstall package acroread + 2) when slowdown starts, either 'killall -KILL ld-linux.so.2' (package 'lsb' not installed) or 'killall -KILL acroread' (package 'lsb' installed). Affected Ubuntu version: Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1 Release: 8.04
** Tags added: acroread adobe-reader hardy ld linker slowdown -- ld-linux.so.2 process excessively consumes CPU https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/260004 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
