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[Dylan McCall <dylanmccall@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 3:41 AM, Scott E. Armitage
<launchpad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 4:39 AM, Luke Benstead <kazade@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> The other issue is that if some app starts accessing the hard disc / use
>> some CPU, everything seems to stop completely. Just now I ran some updates
>> while trying to type this email and Firefox started "grey screening" me
>> every few seconds. Why? The updates seem to use all the CPU and leave the
>> applications struggling to even refresh. I'm not saying this is an Ubuntu
>> specific thing, obviously we've all seen Window's "The application is not
>> responding" dialog, but I know that I see the greyed window on Ubuntu far
>> more than that dialog on Windows. And in my experience, the Windows dialog
>> actually appears when that program is hanging, not because another program
>> is busy.

This is probably a kernel issue.

Bug report here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/131094
And here: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12309



Dylan