Swap going 100 mile an hour virtually freezing PC rsvg-convert

[newcr]

Thank you all for your help.

*rsvg-convert is definitely the problem every time.* Killing the process provides a temporary solution.I am going to digest your replies bit by bit and work through the issues.

/I just hit another snag as I just got ADSL2 the other day and cannot 
get apt working (But that will be in another email question).
/

    ps -ejHf


    It's librsvg2-bin and not librsvg2.  :)  librsvg2 provides shared library where as librsvg2-bin provides rsvg-convert.

    If it (rsvg-convert) always does that (suck up lot of memory and freeze your
    > system) and you do not use that package try removing it-
    >
    > raphael at f9:[~] sudo apt-get remove librsvg2-bin;
    > <type root password>
    >
    > [librsvg2-bin includes rsvg-convert tool]
    >
    > If you do use that package however, consider filing a bug report at
    > https://bugs.launchpad.net on librsvg2-bin. Maybe it's leaking memory it
    > shouldn't. #_#
    *Thanks will check these out. *


    The only I can think of if you aren't explicitly running it, is some
    of thumbnail creation process is iterating over a lot of icons or
    drawings in SVG format that you may have created in Xara. If somehow
    you created a "bad" SVG (maybe Xara crashed while saving) that makes
    rsvg-convert believe that it is really huge it might be causing it to
    attempt to allocate a huge amount of memory simply for the purpose of
    rendering a thumbnail. (Just a guess of course  ;-)   )
    **Will check this out. Not sure how, I suppose I try to open every file of this type.**



      

*LIBDVDCSS* (Tried the following. Didn't work. I think it fell over on the public key.) (Not important at the moment) (Note: The restriction is that Ubuntu will not endorse it because of legal implications. I believe these legal implications do not apply to Australia).

    libdvdcss should be available straight off from one of multimedia repository, not provided by main repository probably due to some restrictions. Google(tm)'d first entry for 'libdvdcss ubuntu' shows -
    http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2005/12/04/libdvdcss2-and-w32codecs-for-ubuntu/



      






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