On 7 February 2013 12:21, Gareth France <[email protected]> wrote: > On 07/02/13 12:08, Colin Law wrote: >> >> On 7 February 2013 11:59, Gareth France <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> ... >>> I've switched to chromium to see what difference that makes. I'll try >>> restarting thunderbird and see what happens >> >> When it is running slow is it using Swap memory? You can see that >> using System Monitor or top in a terminal. I ask because earlier I >> think you said the disk light was going mad, which is a symptom of >> swapping. With 4GB of RAM it should not need to swap. >> >> Colin >> > The problem I've got is that when it starts to run slow I'm not able to call > up a terminal or the system monitor. I was very lucky to get the screenshots > I did. I'll try to keep an eye on it and see if I can catch it mid spasm > next time.
Start top running in a terminal and leave it running. If you can keep the top few lines visible at the bottom of the screen then even better. Colin -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
