Comment 1 for bug 780424

Output of top just after it locks up:

top - 17:46:14 up 3 days, 7:18, 18 users, load average: 7.68, 4.75, 2.34
Tasks: 299 total, 4 running, 292 sleeping, 3 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu0 : 2.3%us, 14.5%sy, 0.9%ni, 81.6%id, 0.6%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Cpu1 : 2.4%us, 15.7%sy, 0.9%ni, 80.6%id, 0.4%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Cpu2 : 3.4%us, 14.9%sy, 0.9%ni, 80.0%id, 0.7%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.1%si, 0.0%st
Cpu3 : 3.4%us, 15.7%sy, 0.9%ni, 79.5%id, 0.4%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.1%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 8193768k total, 8118668k used, 75100k free, 316k buffers
Swap: 7960852k total, 3910980k used, 4049872k free, 19380k cached

  PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
 1800 sharpd 20 0 363m 8588 8588 R 121 0.1 46:30.21 compiz
 1447 root 20 0 5401m 3.4g 1504 R 101 43.1 192:28.90 Xorg
 2637 sharpd 20 0 1755m 1.0g 1.0g S 99 13.3 2403:05 VirtualBox
   47 root 20 0 0 0 0 D 12 0.0 0:20.94 kswapd0
19178 sharpd 20 0 3617m 2.7g 2.7g S 5 34.2 194:08.78 VirtualBox
  295 root 20 0 0 0 0 D 1 0.0 0:06.25 usb-storage
 1685 sharpd 20 0 19412 1076 676 R 1 0.0 0:00.67 top
    1 root 20 0 23896 296 260 S 0 0.0 0:03.10 init
    2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd
    3 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:18.85 ksoftirqd/0
    4 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.81 migration/0
    5 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0
    6 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.28 migration/1
    7 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:31.50 ksoftirqd/1
    8 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/1
    9 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:01.20 migration/2
   10 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 10:10.17 ksoftirqd/2
   11 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/2