Comment 351 for bug 131094

For whatever it's worth, I'm seeing a separate issue where X leaks memory like crazy, which obviously has the interesting effect that I see impressive disk thrashing, and this is with swap turned off. As soon as free memory drops to a few 100 MBs, then my HDD light is pretty much lit up solid and everything slows to a complete crawl. This is with the .35-22 kernel (standard maverick generic kernel).

So something generates a lot of IO (what I still don't know) and when that happens, nothing works except for the 3 finger salute.

I'm willing to try pretty much anything if somebody can tell me what I should do or what information to provide.