Rich Shepard wrote: > This is probably a hardware issue, but the system runs xubuntu-11.10 so I > think it's on topic for this list. > > We have a Toshiba Satellite laptop about 2-3 years old that is heavily used > every day. Most used application is a Web browser (Seamonkey) accessing > facebook and gmail. The system keeps locking up by becoming completely > unresponsive for several minutes at a time. When switching to a different > virtual desktop it takes a long time for the screen to display. > > What might be causing this?
Hard disk retrying over and over on a marginal sector? Fan failure? I'd try booting Knoppix and see whether you experience similar problems. galen -- Galen Seitz [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
