quadrapassel freezes unpredictably during play

[Julian Brelsford]

Binary package hint: gnome-games

usually after 5 to 15 minutes of play, quadrapassel freezes. When it freezes, it shows high processor usage in "top".

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: quadrapassel 1:2.31.92-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Sep 27 03:16:30 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100816.1)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=es_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-games

[Julian Brelsford (julianbrelsford)]

quadrapassel is causing my machine to show unusual memory-usage statistics (according to "top"and "system monitor"):

when it crashes, quadrapassel has a memory usage of about 36mb according to top. top and system monitor show the total memory used by the system at about 100% of 1GB physical memory available (plus a small amount of swap used).

Closing quadrapassel causes the system to have a lot of free memory: it goes down to only 34% of the 1GB of memory used, with the rest free.

[Julian Brelsford (julianbrelsford)]

this bug occurred during the beta cycle of Ubuntu Maverick but stopped occurring following one of the updates (before stable release of Maverick)