Swap going 100 mile an hour virtually freezing PC

[newcr]

Thanks Mark

Assuming "Boot up Manager" is where I see and disable Beagle and/or 
Tracker. Neither appear in the list. Is there another start up 
application I should be looking at.

I have been able to get system monitor going some times when this 
problem happens. Nothing unusual in processes, and virtually everything 
seems to be sleeping except the Monitor process - Even the applications 
I am trying to use are sleeping. Also Beagle and Tracker are not shown 
as processes at this time.CPU usages seems OK. SWAP comes up at 
virtually 100%. (Note: I have to get to System Monitor quickly before 
losing the ability to use the PC).

Is there a log file that would capture what is going on.

Thanks


Mark M Lambert wrote:
>
> I find the usual culprits for this sort of thing is Beagle or Tracker. 
> Disable both from your Gnome session startup see if that helps. 
> One trick is to change to try and run system monitor and see what 
> process is consuming memory, or if you can't get sysmon to run then 
> run 'top' from the command line. One way to get a command line when 
> Gnome is bogged down is to switch screens using Ctrl-Alt-F1 then log 
> in. Ctrl-Alt-F7 (or F8 or F9) should bring you back to the graphic screen.
>
> Hope this helps
> Mark
>
> ----- Original message -----
> From: "newcr" <newcr at westnet.com.au>
> To: "Ubuntu AU List" <ubuntu-au at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 13:40:36 +1100
> Subject: Swap going 100 mile an hour virtually freezing PC
>   
> Hi all
> Just wondering if anyone can tell me what is going on ....
>
> Swap going 100 mile an hour virtually freezing PC. It has been 
> happening the last 3 days. It is not specific to an application or 
> whether I am off-line or on-line (dial-up). I thought it was 
> OpenOffice for a while as it coincided with usage; However, today I 
> was using Thunderbird and Firefox and same thing happened. While it 
> does not completely freeze it virtually comes to a stand-still while 
> something is going on with the hard-drive. Is there a problem or is it 
> doing something like a defrag. Can I get control back of my PC. I have 
> tried looking at logs to see what it is (/var/log) but haven't found 
> the right log (or don't know what I am looking at).
>
> Recently installed 7.04 (About 3 weeks ago).
>
> Any help appreciated
>

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