Computer become very slow if left on.

[Davide Corio]

Il giorno gio, 14/06/2007 alle 23.31 +0000, Zatlite Minthar ha scritto:
> Hi,
> 
> I've got a weird problem with using Ubuntu on my machine.
> Back when I had windows on this machine, I used to be able to leave
> the machine on for weeks at a time.
> Now, if I leave the machine on overnight the next day the machine
> starts responding very slowly.
> If I leave the machine unlocked, and some programs like firefox
> loaded, I can use those ok.
> But tasks like opening up my home folder, another program or unlocking
> the screen lock take ages and the machine becomes unusable.
> I can't even do a proper shutdown/restart because the response is too
> slow. Slow as in taking half an hour to do password checking etc.. I
> have to switch it off at the power button.

I'm having the same problem on my dell latitude d820 core2duo 2Ghz and
1GB of ram

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