[Bug 488849] Re: memory eaten: poll_schedule_timeout

2011-04-14 Thread Roger Wilner
Let me be a bit more specific: from reading my log files and checking "all processes" through my system monitor, I have concluded that my computer has been turned into a zombie and probably added to a botnet. I have learned about "nice" values (and it was "pulse audio" which had been set to a hig

[Bug 488849] Re: memory eaten: poll_schedule_timeout

2011-04-06 Thread Roger Wilner
Proceeding from System to Administration to Log File Viewer, there is all sorts of activity which seems to have nothing at all to do with my use of the system. I have copied swaths of it to Open Office documents, with the vague hope that someone more knowledgeable than I will make sense of it at s

[Bug 740700] Re: sound plays normally, but video skips--it proceeds, but frames are missing--what should be continuous is seen as if revealed by a strobe

2011-03-22 Thread Roger Wilner
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/740700 Title: sound plays normally, but video skips--it proceeds, but frames are missing--what should be continuous is seen as if revealed by a strobe

[Bug 740700] [NEW] sound plays normally, but video skips--it proceeds, but frames are missing--what should be continuous is seen as if revealed by a strobe

2011-03-22 Thread Roger Wilner
Public bug reported: The problem has manifested itself recently. Usually, it has happened when I attempted to view some childrens' DVDs with my granddaughters. I haven't been able to report it while it's happening then, because I have needed to focus on them. I rarely watch DVDs myself, these d