[ale] ubuntu 12.04 SLOW!

[cluon at geeklabs.com (Mike Harrison)]

On Sun, 15 Jul 2012, mike at trausch.us wrote:
> process.  And after killing it you should see it restart.  Additionally,
> unless the things are actually using CPU (e.g., at the top of the list)
> they should not be impacting anything more than a little bit of memory
> usage in the process/thread tables in the kernel itself.

When it is working right, you are correct. What I have been seeing on some 
12.04 systems is it is a real pain and killing it immediately drops system 
load on a no-load development 12.04 system from .5 to .8 to zero.

It's also affected my main laptop (12.04) at times.. but it doesn't stay 
on for days and days.. (usually). On the servers, it seems to become a 
pig after a couple of days...