Comment 18 for bug 174185

Im having the same problem. Theres no real rhyme or reason to it, I haven't waited for 20 mins for it to calm down, but my HD goes crazy and the computer is barely responsive, and by barely, i mean the mouse is even slow to move, forget trying to open a program.

Also, cannot get AVG to work using 9.10. Please don't bring up that i don't need a virus scanner, I use it to scan windows boxes. I can get avast and f-prot to work fine, but no AVG.

I was considering the possibility they are related, perhaps AVG is running a background scan which causes the command line to fail and is eating up CPU.

Also, I upgraded from ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04 to 9.10, that may have something to do with it as well. Good luck guys.