[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu unusably slow

[Gareth France]

My system has never been much cop. Despite being only 5 months old it 
struggles to play an mp3 and browse the web at the same time. No idea 
why. However tonight it ground to a halt, the hard drive access light 
went mad and the mouse stopped moving. Then it moved in jerks and a 
variety of windows greyed out and came back again over and over. The 
system did recover eventually but I've never seen Ubuntu act in this 
way, something I used to see all the time with Windows.

I was able to load the system monitor and capture a few snapshots of the 
running processes. They don't look right to me, the useage of 
Thunderbird and Firefox seems far too high and the duplicated processes 
seemed a bit odd too. I just wondered what you guys made of it.

www.cliftonts.co.uk/system1.png <www.cliftonts.co.uk/system1.png>
www.cliftonts.co.uk/system2.png
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