On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 3:41 AM, Scott E. Armitage <launch...@scott.armitage.name> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 4:39 AM, Luke Benstead <kaz...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> The other issue is that if some app starts accessing the hard disc / use >> some CPU, everything seems to stop completely. Just now I ran some updates >> while trying to type this email and Firefox started "grey screening" me >> every few seconds. Why? The updates seem to use all the CPU and leave the >> applications struggling to even refresh. I'm not saying this is an Ubuntu >> specific thing, obviously we've all seen Window's "The application is not >> responding" dialog, but I know that I see the greyed window on Ubuntu far >> more than that dialog on Windows. And in my experience, the Windows dialog >> actually appears when that program is hanging, not because another program >> is busy.
This is probably a kernel issue. Bug report here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/131094 And here: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12309 Dylan _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp