thunderbird pegs and hogs hard drive disc io

[thufir]

On Sat, 21 Mar 2015 17:04:09 +0100, Liam Proven wrote:

> Try
> 
> $ free
> 
> then...
> 
> # swapon /dev/sda2


It's dual boot:


thufir at tleilax:~$ 
thufir at tleilax:~$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       2039112    1076904     962208     223600      56472     569744
-/+ buffers/cache:     450688    1588424
Swap:            0          0          0
thufir at tleilax:~$ 
thufir at tleilax:~$ sudo swapon /dev/sda2
swapon: /dev/sda2: read swap header failed
thufir at tleilax:~$ 


partitions:

thufir at tleilax:~$ 
thufir at tleilax:~$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 74.5 GiB, 80026361856 bytes, 156301488 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x40f552b7

Device     Boot     Start       End  Sectors  Size Id Type
/dev/sda1  *         2048  61172589 61170542 29.2G 83 Linux
/dev/sda2       147926520 156296384  8369865    4G 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3        61173758 147924991 86751234 41.4G  5 Extended
/dev/sda5        61173760 147924991 86751232 41.4G 83 Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order.
thufir at tleilax:~$ 






thanks,

Thufir