Le dimanche 02 septembre 2012 à 12:28 -0500, Mark Allums a écrit : > > I noticed a low-grade but continuous disk activity. Check with atop or another tool like that. The two main culprits for completely unknown and continuous IO transfers are tracker-miner and ext4 (if your HDD/SSD is big and has just been formated). Again atop or a similar tool could be of a great help.
> Also, it uses a lot > of RAM. This machine has 24G of ram (way overkill, I know) and 23G of > it can be used at times. If this memory is just cached, this only means the kernel does a good job at using all the available memory. > But zero % swap. /var/log filled up with logs > recently, and I was having lots of browser crashes and kernel oopses , > but I traced that to a bad wireless USB WiFi card or driver. That could be. Did you try to run a memtest to check your RAM health? > Diagnosing > that is when I noticed the Nautilus thing. Did you try to remove nautilus references in ~/.config, ~/.local/share and ~/.gnome2? It's also worth noting that Nautilus will overcome a major upgrade in the upcoming version of Gnome (3.6). A lot of bug should be fixed at that time (and a lot of others should be "released"). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1346709965.8490.36.ca...@p76-nom-gd.cnrs-imn.fr