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>>>>> "Laura" == Laura Conrad <[hidden email]> writes: Laura> On Gutsy, I quite regularly find that the system is paging Laura> itself to death and has become unusably slow. Laura> This morning, "top" told me the memory hogging culprit was Laura> "udev", if that enlightens anyone. I got the ubuntu users list to help me with this problem; it turns out to be a really easy fix -- you remove a package called evms. Once you know the answer, finding out more about the problem via google is quite easy. It turns out that evms is a package that was known to be buggy and has been removed from the distribution. The upgrade manager apparently knows the right thing to do about it if you have a system that was freshly installed on Feisty, but I had upgraded from at least Dapper and maybe the one before that. So it looks like the people who are still backing up their data and doing a fresh install still have a point, although current dpkg based distributions certainly upgrade a lot more smoothly than ancient RPM based distributions did. So now I have to decide whether my backup procedure is good enough to make a fresh install on the desktop safer than an upgrade. -- Laura (mailto:[hidden email] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (501) 641-5011 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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