[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu unusably slow

[James Tait]

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On 07/02/13 12:08, Colin Law wrote:
> On 7 February 2013 11:59, Gareth France <gareth.france at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> ... I've switched to chromium to see what difference that makes.
>> I'll try restarting thunderbird and see what happens
> 
> When it is running slow is it using Swap memory?  You can see that 
> using System Monitor or top in a terminal.  I ask because earlier
> I think you said the disk light was going mad, which is a symptom
> of swapping.  With 4GB of RAM it should not need to swap.

This sounds bang on the money to me and mirrors my own experience.
Firefox and Thunderbird use up quite a lot of RAM, but my laptop has
6GB and I still have the same problem periodically.  I haven't yet
managed to narrow it down, though, so I've been unable to offer any
useful information.

JT
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