Compiz or Firefox

[Mario Vukelic]

On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 08:13 -0500, Leonard Smith wrote:
> Since upgrading from Feisty to Gutsy, I have
> encountered a problem with my laptop locking up due to a process seizing
> 100% of the CPU. I first noticed the issue while trying to setup VMWare
> Player which worked great on Feisty. Whenever I had Firefox and VMWare
> open at the same time my system locked up.

Interesting. Could it be RAM starvation? Firefox 2 tended to use lots of
RAM over time, and vmware does the same for principle reasons. How much
RAM do you have in the laptop, and how much of it did you assign to the
virtual machine(s)?

> I upgraded to Hardy and the
> same problem surfaced. At first I thought it was Firefox and VMWare, but
> I have noticed that compiz and evolution will take over at different
> times.

What does "take over" mean in this context?

> Does anyone have any suggestions on tracking this thing down? I've tried
> to find information on bugs, but I haven't had much luck. 

I'm going to try to, but I make no promises :)