[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu unusably slow

[Gareth France]

On 07/02/13 18:54, Alan Pope wrote:
> On 07/02/13 15:55, Gareth France wrote:
>> On 07/02/13 15:50, Alan Pope wrote:
>>> 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?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Not necessarily. It means some was _allocated_. Doesn't mean the box
>>> was swapping heavily. I am not inclined to take those numbers at face
>>> value. I'd rather see the first 10 lines from top pasted.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>> Ask and ye shall receive.
>> www.cliftonts.co.uk/top.png
>>
>
> So no swap problem there. You have gobs and gobs of free RAM.
>
> Cheers,
Just as I was beginning to think we'd got it sorted my system really 
ground to a halt. After about 20 minutes of patiently trying to switch 
windows I got a screenshot (sorry) of top. Copying text just wasn't an 
option as everything was virtually unusable and I'm not sure if I 
captured it too late or not. Thoughts everyone?

www.cliftonts.co.uk/top2.png <http://www.cliftonts.co.uk/top2.png>
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