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[Bryce Harrington <bryce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: xorg
  
  I had been having a Jaunty system freeze problem using the 173 NVIDIA
  binary driver, and I could generally only recover with Alt-SysReq
  REISUB.  I couldn't access a console, because no consoles were
  available.  That was not a problem until perhaps a month or two ago, and
  it seemed to get worse over time -- update problem?  At its worst, it
  was freezing multiple times per day.
  
  Recently I switched back to the generic, open driver (actually, I tried
  to switch to Nouveau, but it failed and tossed me back to the generic
  driver, or so it said.
  
  Now it freezes less often -- perhaps every day or two.  When it does
  freeze, I can access a virtual terminal.  When running top, I've noticed
  that memory used is very large -- on the order of 3009700K --
  essentially the entire 3GB my 32-bit OS can address.
  
  When I first observed that, Firefox 3.0.14 had ~8 zombie processes.  I
  killed them and freed up perhaps 300MB.  I could restart X, but it froze
  again, and this time I couldn't recover.
  
  At another freez, I killed FF first and then saw that xorg had all the
  memory (362m virt and 77m res, with 2770660K used overall.  sudo kill
  (pid of xorg) restarts X, but then it goes back to the same memory usage immediately, even though I can get back into X.  Ctrl-Alt-Backspace does the same as kill (pid of xorg).
  
  I've seen lots of complaints about Jaunty freezing, but I've not seen
  anything about it freezing because xorg uses all available memory.
  
  $ lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 9.04
  Release:	9.04
  
  $ apt-cache policy xorg
  xorg:
    Installed: 1:7.4~5ubuntu18
    Candidate: 1:7.4~5ubuntu18
    Version table:
   *** 1:7.4~5ubuntu18 0
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
  
  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: i386
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Package: xorg 1:7.4~5ubuntu18
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersion: Linux version 2.6.28-15-generic (buildd@palmer) (gcc version 4.3.3 (Ubuntu 4.3.3-5ubuntu4) ) #49-Ubuntu SMP Tue Aug 18 18:40:08 UTC 2009
  SourcePackage: xorg
  Uname: Linux 2.6.28-15-generic i686
+ 
+ [lspci]
+ 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub [8086:2a00] (rev 0c)
+     	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:30cc]
+ 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8600M GS [10de:0425] (rev a1)
+     	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:30cc]

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Xorg grabs all of RAM; UI appears frozen
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/434416
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