And yet again I'm having exactly the same problems. Now I think Firefox 3 may be part of the issue.
This last time, when I unplugged the AC adapter and the laptop switched over to battery power, my CPU started thrashing. Last time this happened it was firefox, so I am presuming that it was the case here (I couldn't check top to verify this). Plugging the power back in seemed to stop the thrashing, but the read- only filesystem problem (which I've read is a last-ditch effort by Linux to protect the disk and files) had come back, and a minute later my CPU and disk bandwidth were being totally sucked up by firefox, dd, klogd and ksoftirqd again. Rob, you've been really helpful so far; is there anything in Firefox 3 that might freak out because of something going on with ACPI? I've switched to Firefox 2 for now; I'll see if the problem happens again. Thanks for your help, ~jdacronym -- Hardy: ksoftirqd, dd, klogd use 100% CPU, Disk https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/368324 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
