Excess processes

[pete smout]

On 16/05/13 21:13, Colin Law wrote:
> 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
>
Hi,

Don't want to hi-jack this thread but I'm following it with interest, as 
I have noticed my hard disc light on alot after upgrade from 11-04 to 
13-04 (via 12-04, 12-10)!

Does that mean I need more ram?

Tasks: 224 total,   2 running, 221 sleeping,   0 stopped,   1 zombie
%Cpu(s):  4.0 us,  2.0 sy,  0.0 ni, 92.8 id,  0.5 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.7 si, 
  0.0 st
KiB Mem:   3093632 total,  2288352 used,   805280 free,   274240 buffers
KiB Swap:  2085884 total,    88684 used,  1997200 free,   933548 cached


If so might have to use XFCE instead of Unity if it is becoming so 
resource heavy ;(