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["Christopher M. Penalver" <christopher.m.penalver@xxxxxxxxx>]

Arne Henningsen, as per
http://h20564.www2.hp.com/hpsc/swd/public/readIndex?sp4ts.oid=5071172&swLangOid=8&swEnvOid=4158
an update to your computer's buggy and outdated BIOS is available
(F.50). If you update to this following
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BIOSUpdate does it change anything?

For more on BIOS updates and linux, please see
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs#Bug_reporting_etiquette
.

Please note your current BIOS is already in the Bug Description, so
posting this on the old BIOS would not be helpful. As well, you don't
have to create a new bug report.

Once the BIOS is updated, if the problem is still reproducible:
1) Please provide the output of the following terminal command (not perform an apport-collect):
sudo dmidecode -s bios-version && sudo dmidecode -s bios-release-date
2) Please make a comment specifically advising on if there was an improvement or not.
3) Please mark this report Status Confirmed. If it's not reproducible, please mark this as Invalid.

Thank you for your understanding.

** Tags added: bios-outdated-f.50

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Incomplete

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Title:
  Ubuntu gets slow and freezes, because 'invisible' processes use all
  memory

Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  I usually suspend my computer (HP EliteBook 8560w) to RAM if I
  tranport it or I don't need it and I restart it only once a month or
  so. However, since a few weeks, my computer gets slow, sluggish, and
  ultimately freezes after using it for some hours, because some
  'invisible' processes use all the RAM (8 GB). When I notice in time
  that there is no or little memory left in RAM so that the computer
  starts to use swap memory and I immediately close all programs, I can
  restart the computer before it gets unresponsive. I have to restart my
  computer at least once per day (often by pressing the on/off button
  for a long time, when I did not manage to restart the computer before
  it became unresponsive). Although a lot of memory is used, the
  processes that use most of the memory are not listed by "System
  Activity" or "top" (I will attached a screen shot and a text file that
  illustrate this). Hence, it seems that some 'invisible' processes use
  nearly all of the memory.

  I ran MemTest86 (from the boot menu) but it did not find any errors.

  I did not use 'apport' to report this bug, because it does not really
  work:

  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/1539263

  but I managed to save the information collected by apport, which I
  will attach.

  Which further information do you need?
  --- 
  ApportVersion: 2.19.4-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  AudioDevicesInUse:
   USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
   /dev/snd/controlC1:  ubuntu     1679 F.... pulseaudio
   /dev/snd/controlC0:  ubuntu     1679 F.... pulseaudio
  CasperVersion: 1.366
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Alpha amd64 (20160131)
  MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP EliteBook 8560w
  Package: linux (not installed)
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm-256color
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcFB: 0 nouveaufb
  ProcKernelCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/username.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash --- maybe-ubiquity
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.3.0-7.18-generic 4.3.3
  RelatedPackageVersions:
   linux-restricted-modules-4.3.0-7-generic N/A
   linux-backports-modules-4.3.0-7-generic  N/A
   linux-firmware                           1.155
  Tags:  xenial
  Uname: Linux 4.3.0-7-generic x86_64
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo
  _MarkForUpload: True
  dmi.bios.date: 07/15/2013
  dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
  dmi.bios.version: 68SVD Ver. F.42
  dmi.board.name: 1631
  dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
  dmi.board.version: KBC Version 01.3D
  dmi.chassis.type: 10
  dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvr68SVDVer.F.42:bd07/15/2013:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPEliteBook8560w:pvrA0001D02:rvnHewlett-Packard:rn1631:rvrKBCVersion01.3D:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct10:cvr:
  dmi.product.name: HP EliteBook 8560w
  dmi.product.version: A0001D02
  dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard

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