High resource consumption by ld-linux.so.2 on Ubuntu 7.10

At random intervals, the memory consumption of a particular process i.e. ld-linux.so.2 would rise abruptly high, and at times, the processor usage would rise too. The culprit in my case was Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.0 and the solution was simple too. There is a package lsb (Linux Standard Base) which will be used by Adobe Acrobat instead of ld-linux.so.2 if available.

I dont mind using Evince or other pdf viewers, but I need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view some portfolios generated using the Adobe Acrobat Office pluging containing multiple pdf s one file.

Mounting ISO files

I had checked out DaemonTools and was wondering if something like this was available for Linux too. Then, I realized that optical media or other devices in Linux had to be mounted. A little bit of searching the man pages gave me this command to mount ISO files.

mount -o loop -t iso9660 isofilename mountpoint