Re: Huge instability and insanely large memory footprint in 9.04

2009-09-29 Thread Evan
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 8:19 AM, Evan eapa...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 7:40 AM, Marius Gedminas mar...@pov.lt wrote: On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 04:46:21AM -0700, J. Lennard wrote: First I'm sorry to write what may appear as a rant, but I hope it is not considered so. I'm

Re: Huge instability and insanely large memory footprint in 9.04

2009-09-25 Thread Marius Gedminas
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 04:46:21AM -0700, J. Lennard wrote: First I'm sorry to write what may appear as a rant, but I hope it is not considered so. I'm writing to express huge instability problems in Ubuntu 9.04. I migrated from ubuntu 8.04 (386) to ubuntu 9.04 (amd64) using a simple clean

Re: Huge instability and insanely large memory footprint in 9.04

2009-09-25 Thread Evan
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 7:40 AM, Marius Gedminas mar...@pov.lt wrote: On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 04:46:21AM -0700, J. Lennard wrote: First I'm sorry to write what may appear as a rant, but I hope it is not considered so. I'm writing to express huge instability problems in Ubuntu 9.04. I

Re: Huge instability and insanely large memory footprint in 9.04

2009-09-25 Thread David MENTRE
Hello, 2009/9/18 J. Lennard lennar...@yahoo.com: I don't really know where to start. During past month, my machine constantly went to trashing mode where the hard-disk light is constantly on and I can't access anything or even swtich to linux console for several *minutes*. As somebody else

Re: Huge instability and insanely large memory footprint in 9.04

2009-09-25 Thread John Moser
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 7:46 AM, J. Lennard lennar...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi list, First I'm sorry to write what may appear as a rant, but I hope it is not considered so. I'm writing to express huge instability problems in Ubuntu 9.04. I migrated from ubuntu 8.04 (386) to ubuntu 9.04 (amd64)

Re: Huge instability and insanely large memory footprint in 9.04

2009-09-25 Thread Patrick Goetz
Conrad Knauer wrote: I'm going to guess, without seeing his machine, that it's something with Firefox... it could be a malfunctioning extension, it could be some script on an otherwise normal page... I would try backing up my ~/.mozilla folder and seeing if running FF fresh solves the

Re: Huge instability and insanely large memory footprint in 9.04

2009-09-25 Thread Daniel Chen
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Patrick Goetz pgo...@mail.utexas.edu wrote:  7668 pgoetz    20   0  160m  17m  12m S    1  0.5  42:56.50 pulseaudio Note that you can disable PA's mempool implementation. We also cache /usr/share/sounds/ubuntu/stereo/* . Of course, from your top (not really a

Re: Huge instability and insanely large memory footprint in 9.04

2009-09-24 Thread Caroline Ford
2009/9/18 J. Lennard lennar...@yahoo.com Hi list, First I'm sorry to write what may appear as a rant, but I hope it is not considered so. I'm writing to express huge instability problems in Ubuntu 9.04. I migrated from ubuntu 8.04 (386) to ubuntu 9.04 (amd64) using a simple clean install.

Re: Huge instability and insanely large memory footprint in 9.04

2009-09-24 Thread Evan
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 7:46 AM, J. Lennard lennar...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi list, First I'm sorry to write what may appear as a rant, but I hope it is not considered so. I'm writing to express huge instability problems in Ubuntu 9.04. I migrated from ubuntu 8.04 (386) to ubuntu 9.04 (amd64)

Re: Huge instability and insanely large memory footprint in 9.04

2009-09-24 Thread Martin Owens
Hey Caroline, On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 18:58 +0100, Caroline Ford wrote: You don't have enough RAM. 1 GB is pretty low by today's standards. You may be happier with xubuntu on a lower spec machine, but as you've got a fast CPU then you should get more RAM as it is a clear bottleneck.

Re: Huge instability and insanely large memory footprint in 9.04

2009-09-24 Thread Ronan Mullally
Sorry to followup a followup, but: On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, George Farris wrote: On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 15:08 -0400, Martin Owens wrote: XUbuntu should be used on PIII machines with 128-256MB of RAM and we normally have enough 128MB SDRAM sticks to upgrade them. But anything less and it's

Re: Huge instability and insanely large memory footprint in 9.04

2009-09-24 Thread Conrad Knauer
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Onkar Shinde onkarshi...@gmail.com wrote: You don't have enough RAM. 1 GB is pretty low by today's standards. You may be happier with xubuntu on a lower spec machine, but as you've got a fast CPU then you should get more RAM as it is a clear bottleneck. 1 GB