[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu unusably slow

[Gareth France]

On 06/02/13 22:49, Kris Douglas wrote:
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> On 6 Feb 2013 22:31, "Gareth France" <gareth.france at gmail.com 
> <mailto:gareth.france at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> That usage seems pretty typical for firefox under heavy load.
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> What are the specs of your machine and have you chrcked the hard drive 
> is passing the SMART test in Disk Utility?
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The laptop has a P6200 processor, Intel HD graphics, 500GB healthy hard 
disk and 4GB DDR3 RAM, however continues to be outshone by the antique 
with 60GB HDD it replaced.

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