[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu unusably slow

[Gareth France]

On 07/02/13 15:12, Colin Law wrote:
> On 7 February 2013 14:18, Alan Pope <alan.pope at canonical.com> wrote:
>> On 07/02/13 12:47, Gareth France wrote:
>>> I've just had a peek and apparently it's using swap memory right now!
>>> Memory 1.5Gb of 3.5Gb used
>>> Swap 658.9Mb of 3.7Gb used
>>>
>> Using swap is not a problem. Swapping is the problem.
> It is unusual though to see half a gig in swap when less than half of
> the RAM is is use, is it not?  For example mine has been on all day
> and is still showing zero swap (I have 4GB RAM).  Does it not mean
> that at some point something has been using a lot?
>
> Colin
>
I'd say it's fairly obvious that 'something' is running away with 
itself. It's just a case of pinning down what. Based on the way the 
system is performing at the moment my bet is on Firefox, no doubt thanks 
to flash. However even just now with chromium running 3 tabs but 
disconnected from the net, thunderbird and rhythmbox running it was 
still pausing in the middle of tracks.