Comment 3 for bug 45250

cat /proc/swaps gives no output, but I have restarted the laptop since doing the update.

When I did the test with Add/Remove Applications I was able to switch to another virtual console and login, but this happened extremely slowly. Next
time I made be able to try getting to the top command though.

On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 07:56:46PM -0000, Paul Sladen wrote:
> >From the dmidecode, this machine appears to have 256MB of RAM. I would
> if it had gone into a swap trashing. Could you provide the output of:
>
> $ cat /proc/swaps
>
> Are you able to log into the machine using SSH (or using the console by
> pressing Ctrl-Alt-F1). You may then be able to run 'top' to find out
> what is using up all the resources.
>
> If that's possible can you try attaching to the process with:
>
> strace -p $(pidof gnome-app-install)
>
> and see if you can get a log of what it's doing.
>
> Another indirect source of this behaviour I've seen is the Beagle search
> tool choosing to update its cache and quite happily chuggs away through
> the whole disk completely shutting out anything else.
>
> Finally, if you need to recover the machine, the following sequence can
> be useful:
>
> Alt-SysRq-s Alt-SysRq-u Alt-SysRq-b (Sync, Unmount, reBoot).
>
> --
> Dapper: Add/Remove applications and Update Manager make the system unresponsive
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/45250
>

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