busy disk

[Colin Law]

On 24 May 2014 16:29, thufir <hawat.thufir at gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't know why, but nmon shows a 100% busy disk quite often.  It's a
> mix of read and write, but sometimes just reads.
>
> disk free shows:
>
> Filesystem                   Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root   72G   20G   48G  29% /

Is it swapping?  Use System Monitor to see whether it is using more
than a few MB.
How much RAM have you got and are you using Unity, LXDE or what?

Colin