Computer become very slow if left on.

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On 06/18/2007 05:57 PM, Zatlite Minthar wrote:
> No, my resources seem to be fine. I've an "almost fresh" install of
> ubuntu.Only programs I usually leave on when I do the leave on thing
> is Firefox and pidgin.> From: tyler.roach at bluebottle.com> Date: Fri,
> 15 Jun 2007 08:10:41 +0300> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Re: Computer become very slow if left on.> > Try running the
> command:> top> from a terminal and see if there's a particular
> process that's eating> up your resources.> > > On Thu, Jun 14, 2007
> at 11:31:09PM +0000, Zatlite Minthar wrote:> > 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.Can
> someone help find the problem?I'm using an IBM ThinkCenter 3ghz, 1
> gig memory and I've about 2 gigs of free space on my
> partition.Regards,Zatlite> >
> __________________________________

Could be Firefox (FF). Firefox has know memory bugs, see:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=memory

Try closing FF and leaving it on to see if that makes a difference.