Doesn't look like the swap is thrashing the disk - there's memory and swap free, but I/O is blocking 56% of the CPU time. Next time it happens, try getting the vmstat output that Alan suggested.
Neil. On Feb 10, 2013 5:49 PM, "Gareth France" <[email protected]> wrote: > On 07/02/13 18:54, Alan Pope wrote: > > On 07/02/13 15:55, Gareth France 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]><[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 > > > So no swap problem there. You have gobs and gobs of free RAM. > > Cheers, > > Just as I was beginning to think we'd got it sorted my system really > ground to a halt. After about 20 minutes of patiently trying to switch > windows I got a screenshot (sorry) of top. Copying text just wasn't an > option as everything was virtually unusable and I'm not sure if I captured > it too late or not. Thoughts everyone? > > www.cliftonts.co.uk/top2.png > > -- > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > >
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