12.04 become unusable

[Liam Proven]

On 9 September 2012 15:18, G. <pegngaryubuntu at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Well then there's something going on with this machine or
> installation.  I've read some others using Unity without much trouble
> on this very machine and with less memory installed.  I think all is
> well with the memory and hard drive so there are some things slowing
> it up.
>
> My only start up applications are drop box and the weather indicator,
> which is not working any longer anyway.  At the moment, running just
> Midori, I am using 1.2 gigs of memory running 2D.  Gnome system
> monitor takes up quite a bit of cPU time but only from time to time.
> I have seen it bounce up to 68% per System Monitor.

Do bear in mind that the kernel will use a large chunk of any
unoccupied memory for the disk cache. It leaves some RAM totally
uncommitted so that if you load a large app, it can give the app that
free space instantly without having to deallocate some of the disk
cache then shrink it and free up memory that way.

But yes, that does sound a bit odd.

I might be tempted to try a different OS (or at least a different
Linux distro) on the machine, just in case it highlights problems that
Ubuntu is ignoring, not seeing or not telling you about.

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