On 06/02/13 22:49, Kris Douglas wrote:
On 6 Feb 2013 22:31, "Gareth France" <gareth.fra...@gmail.com
<mailto: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?
The laptop has a P6200 processor, Intel HD graphics, 500GB healthy hard
disk and 4GB DDR3 RAM, however continues to be outshone by the antique
with 60GB HDD it replaced.
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