I have had the exact same problem since upgrading to 8.04.
Even worse, when the acroread (or ld-linux.so.2) has consumed all of the
available system memory (after a significant amount of time), the whole
computer locks (almost) completely with the harddisk LED flashing
continuously. The systems responsiveness decreases to a minimal level
with mouse pointer movements daking several seconds.
When I kill the X-server (and thus acroread) via Ctrl-Alt-Backspace
(sometimes taking several minutes), the system works as before the
crash.
I've reproduced this bug multiple times; it always coincides with the
Adobe Reader Firefox plugin crashing out of Firefox and Opera web
browser.
I would consider this a CRITICAL BUG for a LTS distribution version, because:
1. The associated whole-system-crash occurs sporadic and is
2. delayed, can't easily be associated with the crashed application and
3. causes data loss because it forces unknowing users to reboot their system.
I'm Using Kubuntu 8.04 AMD 64 with a vanilla Linux 2.6.27 kernel, but I've
had this bug with several other kernel versions before.
** Changed in: acroread (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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ld-linux.so.2 process excessively consumes CPU
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/260004
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