On 27 August 2010 10:50, Victor Churchill <victorchurchill@???> wrote:
> I have found something kind of similar in Ubu 10.04 (on a rather
> low-memory Panasonic (768MB):
> 1. Start Chromium browser
> 2. Open 'a few' tabs and surf about a bit
> 3. Eventually it's as if some threshold is exceeded and the system
> load average starts ramping up, often to between 5 and 10. I either
> have to leave the computer alone till it settles down again or kill
> the main chromium process.
> 4. Looking with 'top' or 'htop' does not really reveal what's going on.
>
> Are there kernel related processes that do not show up in the ?top
> lists? Swap-related stuff? Clive, could you be bumping into a memory
> ceiling?
Thanks for that Victor.
According to top there is still about 30% of memory free. What I have
noticed though is when I shutdown a dialogue box pops up stating.
A program is still running
Unknown
Not responding.
Any idea how to find out what?
Clive Woodfine
