| 2008-08-22 08:32:52 |
Matthias |
description |
Once in a while, a process called "ld-linux.so.2" starts consuming all my system resources, with CPU usage between 90-100%, making the system unresponsive, up to not being able to control the system anymore at all (not even ALT-Fx'ing to a console).
A forum post (http://tinyurl.com/5mdc9p) indicates that Adobe Reader 8 is the source of the problem. It claims that installing the "lsb" package will solve the problem (I'm not sure if I can confirm this yet).
Affected Ubuntu version:
Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1
Release: 8.04 |
Once in a while, a process called "ld-linux.so.2" starts consuming all my system resources, with CPU usage between 90-100%, my 2GB main memory AND my complete swap partition used up completely, making the system unresponsive to a degree that even single keystrokes need up to a minute to get interpreted by the system.
A forum post (http://tinyurl.com/5mdc9p) indicates that Adobe Reader 8 is the source of the problem. It claims that installing the "lsb" package will solve the problem. I can now confirm this does not fix the problem. Instead, the acroread process itself will now turn out to be the resource hog (no ld-linux.so.2 process is listed anymore by 'top' though).
Two known workarounds:
1) uninstall package acroread
2) when slowdown starts, either 'killall -KILL ld-linux.so.2' (package 'lsb' not installed) or 'killall -KILL acroread' (package 'lsb' installed).
Affected Ubuntu version:
Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1
Release: 8.04 |
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