Comment 35 for bug 69752

I can confirm this bug with Gutsy. It's using 850M (VIRT) or 600M (RES) RAM, while my machine only has 1G physical memory...
And it's heavily using the cpu, fluctuating between 60 and 100% usage...

top - 15:35:16 up 16 days, 4:07, 2 users, load average: 3.16, 2.75, 1.69
Tasks: 153 total, 3 running, 150 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 1.0%us, 22.5%sy, 72.5%ni, 0.0%id, 3.7%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.3%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 1034480k total, 1021148k used, 13332k free, 113496k buffers
Swap: 3145720k total, 674168k used, 2471552k free, 50188k cached

  PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
24478 takis 24 7 854m 602m 3152 R 94.5 59.7 90:33.94 beagled
14408 takis 15 0 188m 50m 21m S 0.7 5.0 0:11.98 firefox-bin
  125 root 12 -5 0 0 0 D 0.3 0.0 2:08.59 kswapd0
    1 root 19 0 2948 232 180 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.83 init
    2 root 11 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd
    3 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:11.96 ksoftirqd/0
    4 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0
    5 root 18 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:02.49 events/0