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xserver-xorg-video-intel package

  1. Bug #343714
  2. Comment #11

Comment 11 for bug 343714

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hronir (hronir) wrote :

It's not a problem of Firefox: any other application freeze the system once in a while eating several dozen of MB of swap space.
Reducing /proc/sys/vm/swappiness doesn't help too.
My current workaround is just to unmount the swap partition at all and restart my kubuntu box.
Cheers.