On my systems, this bug also affected saving files from firefox, regardless of
the destination!
This is not about the time for downloading, I'm talking about ~1 kB files.
On one machine, it took 4-5 seconds saving such files to any location
(not just the desktop), on the other it took over 2 seco
Just happened to me, too (17.10 x64). RAM usage got up, system became
sluggish then stopped responding completely, only MagicSysRQ got me out.
After restart, the problem has left an ugly gift: syslog has grown to
6,4 GB (I won't upload that). tail syslog (repeating for at least last
100 lines):
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