On Thu 07 Feb 2013 16:25:31 GMT, Gareth France wrote: > On 07/02/13 16:20, Colin Law wrote: >> On 7 February 2013 15:55, Gareth France <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 >> >>> >>> -- >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk >>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > I wasn't sure about copying from a terminal output that won't sit > still. Yes my library is very large but shrinking. I used to be a DJ > and now I've stopped I have a copy of all my music on the hard drive, > whenever a song I don't like plays I delete it. I don't expect the end > result to be too big. I did wonder if that might be the cause of the > gaps in playback. It doesn't however explain why my antique laptop > coped with that or any of the other related issues that happen even > when I'm not playing music. Although I understand that the lenses in > unity run all the time at the moment, I did think perhaps the new > approach in 13.04 might be lighter on the resources. >
What about looking at disk accesses directly with _iotop_? Maybe you could install it and run it to see if some process might be reading/writing to the disk even if not inducing a large CPU load. Some time ago I had some issues with a defective hard disk and tracker-miner. iotop helped me a lot; it can be used with the other suggestions in the thread to troubleshoot excessive swapping. -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
