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

Arne Henningsen, in order to allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue, at your earliest convenience, could you please test the latest upstream kernel available from http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/?C=N;O=D ? Please keep in mind the following:
1) The one to test is at the very top line at the top of the page (not the daily folder).
2) The release names are irrelevant.
3) The folder time stamps aren't indicative of when the kernel actually was released upstream.
4) Install instructions are available at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/MainlineBuilds .

If testing on your main install would be inconvenient, one may:
1) Install Ubuntu to a different partition and then test this there.
2) Backup, or clone the primary install.

If the latest kernel did not allow you to test to the issue (ex. you couldn't boot into the OS) please make a comment in your report about this, and continue to test the next most recent kernel version until you can test to the issue. Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please comment on which kernel version specifically you tested. If this issue is fixed in the mainline kernel, please add the following tags by clicking on the yellow circle with a black pencil icon, next to the word Tags, located at the bottom of the report description:
kernel-fixed-upstream
kernel-fixed-upstream-X.Y-rcZ

Where X, and Y are the first two numbers of the kernel version, and Z is
the release candidate number if it exists.

If the mainline kernel does not fix the issue, please add the following tags:
kernel-bug-exists-upstream
kernel-bug-exists-upstream-X.Y-rcZ

Please note, an error to install the kernel does not fit the criteria of
kernel-bug-exists-upstream.

Once testing of the latest upstream kernel is complete, please mark this
report's Status as Confirmed. Please let us know your results.

Thank you for your understanding.

** Tags removed: bios-outdated-f.60
** Tags added: latest-bios-f.60

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Low => Medium

** 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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