Excess processes

[John R. Sowden]

Per top:
895 MB (video is probably shared)
running 1 app (Thunderbird):
762MB used, 134MB free

Swap: 1.46GB,   808 bytes used

I think it might have something to do with all the processes.  Or there 
was net communications that I am unaware of. (No download or upgrade in 
process).

Thanks for the top reminder, haven't used it in years.

John


On 05/16/2013 01:13 PM, 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
>