2009/6/21 Matthew Daubney <[email protected]>: > On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 08:29 +0100, Paul Webster wrote: >> Hi (again)! I'm a relative newcomer to Ubuntu, a refugee from the >> Windows Wonderland, and I like it very much. However, lately the hard >> disk churns and churns, almost all the time, and startup is very slow. >> Even writing this email has taken a long time, because sometimes >> everything else comes to a halt. >> >> Please, somebody, help! >> >> Paul > > > Hi Paul, > > There's a couple of places to look to find the rogue process. First have > a look in top (open a terminal, type top) and that should give you a > list of everything that's eating your resources. If it's HD thats being > eaten, install iotop (open a terminal sudo apt-get install iotop) and > then run it (in a terminal type iotop) and that will tell you what's > using all of your IO. > > Have a look at those, see if you can identify whats eating your HD, then > report back and we'll see what we can do :)
For a graphical alternative, go to the System menu -> Administration -> System Monitor. This will obviously be slower to do than running 'top' from the command line but may be easier to understand. -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
