bootchart consumed a large portion of memory post boot

Binary package hint: bootchart

As copied from "top":

   PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
 1531 root 20 0 321m 51m 4776 D 5 1.7 1:45.67 Xorg
 2360 **** 20 0 891m 167m 5400 S 4 5.5 2:25.14 firefox-bin
 3664 root 20 0 2915m 2.5g 1336 D 4 84.0 8:06.54 bootchart

The system had recently been restarted and became sluggish due to low memory availability.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: bootchart 0.90.2-7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-26.48-generic 2.6.32.24+drm33.11
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-26-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Dec 16 16:52:29 2010
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: bootchart