[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu unusably slow

[Gareth France]

On 06/02/13 23:01, Simon Greenwood wrote:
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> On 6 February 2013 22:30, 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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>     www.cliftonts.co.uk/system1.png
>     <http://www.cliftonts.co.uk/system1.png>
>     www.cliftonts.co.uk/system2.png
>     <http://www.cliftonts.co.uk/system2.png>
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> I had this with 9.04 64 bit on a Dell XPS with a Mobile Centrino CPU 
> and it also related to Firefox, Thunderbird and Adobe plugins - 
> YouTube would cause the Flash plugin to spin up to 99% CPU as it seems 
> to be on the way to doing on your machine. Adobe Air also did the 
> same, so the answer was to stop using Adobe products. I never really 
> got to the bottom of it and it didn't happen with 10.04 and hasn't 
> happened since.
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> s/
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To the best of my knowledge I wasn't using Adobe Air at the time. And as 
for Flash, of course I don't choose how others design their sites.
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