On 6 Feb 2013 22:31, "Gareth France" <gareth.fra...@gmail.com> wrote: > > My system has never been much cop. Despite being only 5 months old it struggles to play an mp3 and browse the web at the same time. No idea why. However tonight it ground to a halt, the hard drive access light went mad and the mouse stopped moving. Then it moved in jerks and a variety of windows greyed out and came back again over and over. The system did recover eventually but I've never seen Ubuntu act in this way, something I used to see all the time with Windows. > > I was able to load the system monitor and capture a few snapshots of the running processes. They don't look right to me, the useage of Thunderbird and Firefox seems far too high and the duplicated processes seemed a bit odd too. I just wondered what you guys made of it. >
That usage seems pretty typical for firefox under heavy load. What are the specs of your machine and have you chrcked the hard drive is passing the SMART test in Disk Utility?
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