powersaved is another process that eats up RAM. Currently, to get my machine into usable state, I do the following:
$ sudo /etc/init.d/powersaved stop $ sudo /etc/init.d/ivman stop After this, hald still uses a lot of CPU cycles, but at least my RAM isn't consumed. Also, when memory usage rises, it's a signal that gnome- power-manager is misbehaving, so I run this command once in a while: $ killall -9 gnome-power-manager Hope this helps others for now. -- [feisty] hald adds/removes same device many times a second causing high loads and extremally slow performance https://launchpad.net/bugs/81915 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
