On 07/02/13 16:55, Raul Landa wrote:
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
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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.
I don't know that program, sounds like it could be an interesting
experiment. Thanks
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