Hi. Looks we have been lucky today :-) I was able to trace the second situation. A huge amount of pidgin processes running. CPU and memory at full load. I was scrolling a text document on open office when it begun.
Regards. ** Attachment added: "strace-pidgin2.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/14827516/strace-pidgin2.log -- hangs due to repeated gettimeofday calls https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/223443 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs