Comment 382 for bug 359392

It sounds like this problem:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487494 which is about the X
server leaking memory, which causes swap thrashing which causes the
kernel to spend a lot of time in IO-wait until the system becomes
non-responsive. I haven't seen this with Ubuntu, but Jaunty uses the
same version of X server and about the same version of the Intel drivers
so its possible its the same problem.

Regardless, this is not relevant to this ticket.

On Sun, 2009-05-03 at 15:11 +0000, Valentin Neacsu wrote:
> I am having an issue with Jaunty on i915. Using Metacity, the CPU gets
> slowly but surely eaten up with no obvious process eating up the CPU
> cycles. "top" shows no process taking more than 5-10% CPU time, while
> the "System Monitor" panel applet shows the CPU at 100% usage, with
> "IOWait" eating up most of it. When this happens I gradually lose
> control of the system, where sometimes I can reboot it, while other
> times it just freezes trying to do it. Most programs stop responding
> when this happens. Switching to text mode doesn't help as bash can't get
> enough CPU time to initialize. I can reboot with the Magic SysRq key. I
> can trigger this easily while on battery, usually within 5-10 minutes of
> normal usage (browsing, reading PDFs etc).
>
> My question is if this bug is related to the above described symptoms,
> or is it a completely different bug that's affecting me?
>
> Thanks.
>