I think that the mad hard-disk usage is a conseqeuence of the OOM killer which this time took out thunderbird and didn't go mad on the hard disk:
[333636.317440] Call Trace: [333636.317450] [<ffffffff802b37c5>] oom_kill_process+0x95/0x240 [333636.317453] [<ffffffff802b3f7f>] ? select_bad_process+0xef/0x130 [333636.317456] [<ffffffff802b4074>] out_of_memory+0xb4/0x150 [333636.317459] [<ffffffff802b6be9>] __alloc_pages_internal+0x4b9/0x500 [333636.317463] [<ffffffff802b9a3a>] __do_page_cache_readahead+0xda/0x210 [333636.317466] [<ffffffff802b9bce>] do_page_cache_readahead+0x5e/0x90 [333636.317469] [<ffffffff802b1f8a>] filemap_fault+0x34a/0x430 [333636.317472] [<ffffffff802c5ea0>] __do_fault+0x50/0x4f0 [333636.317476] [<ffffffff8026c44c>] ? lock_hrtimer_base+0x2c/0x60 [333636.317478] [<ffffffff8026c50f>] ? hrtimer_try_to_cancel+0x3f/0x90 [333636.317481] [<ffffffff802c6ff9>] handle_mm_fault+0x1e9/0x470 [333636.317486] [<ffffffff806a17a7>] do_page_fault+0x307/0x780 [333636.317490] [<ffffffff80277718>] ? futex_wake+0xf8/0x130 [333636.317493] [<ffffffff8024a580>] ? default_wake_function+0x0/0x10 [333636.317495] [<ffffffff80278ba6>] ? do_futex+0x86/0x140 [333636.317498] [<ffffffff80278d26>] ? sys_futex+0xc6/0x170 [333636.317500] [<ffffffff8069ed8a>] error_exit+0x0/0x70 [333636.317502] Mem-Info: [333636.317504] DMA per-cpu: [333636.317506] CPU 0: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 [333636.317507] CPU 1: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 [333636.317509] DMA32 per-cpu: [333636.317511] CPU 0: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 113 [333636.317512] CPU 1: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 144 [333636.317513] Normal per-cpu: [333636.317515] CPU 0: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 147 [333636.317516] CPU 1: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 160 [333636.317519] Active_anon:629447 active_file:310 inactive_anon:241433 [333636.317520] inactive_file:3678 unevictable:3 dirty:0 writeback:0 unstable:0 [333636.317522] free:5295 slab:9893 mapped:3057 pagetables:7527 bounce:0 [333636.317525] DMA free:6620kB min:8kB low:8kB high:12kB active_anon:0kB inactive_anon:0kB active_file:0kB inactive_file:0kB unevictable:0kB present:5508kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? yes [333636.317528] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 2741 3751 3751 [333636.317532] DMA32 free:11928kB min:5720kB low:7148kB high:8580kB active_anon:2069196kB inactive_anon:517284kB active_file:600kB inactive_file:8748kB unevictable:0kB present:2807264kB pages_scanned:1983840 all_unreclaimable? no [333636.317535] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 1010 1010 [333636.317539] Normal free:2632kB min:2108kB low:2632kB high:3160kB active_anon:448592kB inactive_anon:448448kB active_file:640kB inactive_file:5964kB unevictable:12kB present:1034240kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no [333636.317542] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0 [333636.317544] DMA: 3*4kB 4*8kB 5*16kB 5*32kB 5*64kB 3*128kB 4*256kB 1*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 1*4096kB = 6620kB [333636.317551] DMA32: 685*4kB 444*8kB 9*16kB 18*32kB 19*64kB 10*128kB 5*256kB 0*512kB 1*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 11812kB [333636.317557] Normal: 26*4kB 4*8kB 1*16kB 13*32kB 10*64kB 7*128kB 2*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 2616kB [333636.317563] 6581 total pagecache pages [333636.317565] 0 pages in swap cache [333636.317566] Swap cache stats: add 0, delete 0, find 0/0 [333636.317568] Free swap = 0kB [333636.317569] Total swap = 0kB [333636.350405] 1310720 pages RAM [333636.350407] 401774 pages reserved [333636.350408] 2270 pages shared [333636.350409] 901207 pages non-shared [333636.350413] Out of memory: kill process 16606 (run-mozilla.sh) score 655290 or a child [333636.350460] Killed process 16610 (thunderbird-bin) ** Attachment added: "Xorg.0.log of 1.8g xorg process" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/24743070/Xorg.0.log -- [jaunty] xorg (fglrx) uses 1.8GB of RAM https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/349030 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
