On 06/02/13 23:01, Simon Greenwood wrote:
On 6 February 2013 22:30, 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.
www.cliftonts.co.uk/system1.png
<http://www.cliftonts.co.uk/system1.png>
www.cliftonts.co.uk/system2.png
<http://www.cliftonts.co.uk/system2.png>
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I had this with 9.04 64 bit on a Dell XPS with a Mobile Centrino CPU
and it also related to Firefox, Thunderbird and Adobe plugins -
YouTube would cause the Flash plugin to spin up to 99% CPU as it seems
to be on the way to doing on your machine. Adobe Air also did the
same, so the answer was to stop using Adobe products. I never really
got to the bottom of it and it didn't happen with 10.04 and hasn't
happened since.
s/
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To the best of my knowledge I wasn't using Adobe Air at the time. And as
for Flash, of course I don't choose how others design their sites.
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