On 7 February 2013 15:55, Gareth France <gareth.fra...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 07/02/13 15:50, Alan Pope wrote: >> >> On 07/02/13 15:12, Colin Law wrote: >>> >>> On 7 February 2013 14:18, Alan Pope <alan.p...@canonical.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> On 07/02/13 12:47, Gareth France wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> I've just had a peek and apparently it's using swap memory right now! >>>>> Memory 1.5Gb of 3.5Gb used >>>>> Swap 658.9Mb of 3.7Gb used >>>>> >>>> >>>> Using swap is not a problem. Swapping is the problem. >>> >>> >>> It is unusual though to see half a gig in swap when less than half of >>> the RAM is is use, is it not? For example mine has been on all day >>> and is still showing zero swap (I have 4GB RAM). Does it not mean >>> that at some point something has been using a lot? >>> >> >> Not necessarily. It means some was _allocated_. Doesn't mean the box was >> swapping heavily. I am not inclined to take those numbers at face value. I'd >> rather see the first 10 lines from top pasted. >> >> Cheers, > > Ask and ye shall receive. > www.cliftonts.co.uk/top.png
Do you have a vast library of music, possibly on an external drive or something? Google shows that, at least historically, unity-music-daemon and the music lens have been problematic in their use of resources. By the way, you can use Ctrl-Shift-C to copy out of the terminal. Colin > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
