busy disk
Colin Law
clanlaw at gmail.com
Tue May 27 20:41:15 UTC 2014
On 27 May 2014 17:34, thufir <hawat.thufir at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 24 May 2014 16:39:34 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
>
>> 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
>
>
> I'm using 13.10 stock, so Unity. I'll have to catch it again to see how
> much MB it's using of RAM, but it bogs the whole system down to a crawl.
That certainly sounds like swapping.
> Mostly reads, but some writes.
>
> I have 2GB RAM, DDR2:
>
> thufir at dur:~$ free -h
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 2.0G 1.6G 320M 174M 55M 884M
2GB is not a massive amount, but should be plenty provided you are not
trying to do too much at once (tens of tabs open in the browser for
example). Wait till it goes again then have a look.
Colin
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