<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffcc" text="#000000"> 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: <blockquote cite="mid1194403752.12434.1219951249@webmail.messagingengine.com" type="cite"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; "> <title>Re: Swap going 100 mile an hour virtually freezing PC</title>  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1"> 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 <pre> ----- Original message ----- From: "newcr" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:newcr@westnet.com.au"><newcr@westnet.com.au></a> To: "Ubuntu AU List" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com"><ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com></a> Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 13:40:36 +1100 Subject: Swap going 100 mile an hour virtually freezing PC </pre> 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 </blockquote> </body> </html>