Excess processes

[Colin Law]

On 16 May 2013 17:23, John R. Sowden <jsowden at americansentry.net> wrote:
> I just noticed a lot of hd thrashing while was looking at a web page with tb
> running in a separate window (of course!).  I was surprised because this
> computer is running linux, not mswin.  I looked at the task manager and saw
> lots of processes running that were of either uk or of no interest to me.

If the hard disk thrashing you may have run out of RAM.  How much have you got?
In a terminal, run
top
and see how much swap you are using, if that is more than a few tens
of Meg it probably means you have not got enough RAM.

Colin