[ale] Ubuntu 10.10 - SWAP going crazy!

[Sergio Chaves]

Funny you mentioned Firefox.
I noticed the "plugin-container" also on a resource roller coaster.
Killed both Firefox and plugin-container processes; restarted them. System is 
better but there are still spikes in their processes.

On Monday 07 March 2011 11:44:33 Byron Jeff wrote:
> So it's not just me. As of late my Kubuntu 10.10 has been going nuts and
> been killing firefox processes right and left. I was starting to wonder if
> I was having a hardware problem.
> 
> BAJ
> 
> On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 11:05:28AM -0500, Sergio Chaves wrote:
> > Hi alers:
> > 
> > Just upgraded to Ubuntu a few days back and ran all the updates.
> > After the last update, two very strange things have happened:
> > 01 - The processes for virtuoso and Xorg are VERY resource hungry, with
> > both somewhere between 18% and 26% each!
> > 02 - Both processes seem to "not die" even after a shutdown/reboot, like
> > they picked up where they were left off prior to the shutdown/reboot -
> > top shows time = 3 to 4 days uptime for this processes - +-100 hrs!!!
> > 
> > Logs do not show anything that "pops out" (for me at least).
> > 
> > Clues?
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