Ubuntu freezing frequently

[Colin Law]

On 9 March 2013 08:53, Sanjib Sikder <sanjibju2002 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My laptop, HP Pavilion dv 6000t, is running on Ubuntu 12.04 OS. For last ~2
> weeks it is freezing very frequently. When I start the laptop, initially it
> seems behave well, but after sometime, it starts freezing. When It freezes,
> if I wait for a couple of minutes, then it again starts working but only to
> freeze again. My laptop is 5 years old. About six months ago there was a
> hard disk crash and thus I had to replaced that with a new one.
>
> Now how do I ensure whether my laptop is dying or it is due to my operating
> system or due to some non-hardware related issues ?

When it freezes is the hard disk light flickering continuously?  That
might indicate that a lot of swapping is going on.

How much RAM have you got?

Colin

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