Sounds like it is thrashing swap. Can you run 'top' somewhere to monitor for memory hogs? ( 'M' to sort by memory usage)
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Joseph Zitt <[email protected]> wrote: > Following up, a month later: > > Well, it looks like I've figured out all these problems -- except the most > vexing one. Printing, the external monitor, the keyboard, all do what I > expect them to, on my Asus Eee 1001P running Ubuntu 10.10. > > The system still will go into a state in which the disk sounds like it's > thrashing endlessly and the interface freezes. I can sometimes nudge the > mouse pointer a little, but that's it. The only thing to do is to forcibly > power down. This has been happening, pretty much consistently, after it's > been up for an hour or two, when I've gone a little while without using the > keyboard or mouse. This happens both when I'm running the Netbook edition > with the Unity interface and the Desktop edition with the Gnome interface. > It does not happen when I run Windows 7 on the same hardware. > > Unfortunately, this happens consistently enough that I end up running > Windows most of the time. Since I prefer Linux and am more comfortable with > it, I would like to run Ubuntu on the system as my default, only hopping > over to Windows for specific tasks (such as managing my iPhone, which I > would leave to my PowerPC Mac running OS X Panther, except that, like a lot > of people, I can't get it to talk to my 2WIRE DSL connection effectively). > > Searching the web, I haven't found other instances of the problem with > Ubuntu freezing up, but I may not be searching on the right terms. > > Might this added info point to a solution? > > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:17 PM, Joseph Zitt <[email protected]>wrote: > >> First, my apologies for posting outside the key topics of politics or >> dentistry. >> >> I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition with the Unity interface on an >> Asus Eee 1001P. [0] >> >> The system has some quirks, such as starting with the keyboard NumLocked >> (which led me to think that i couldn't log in at all until I realized it) >> and not supporting an external monitor well. >> >> It also sometime grinds effectively to a halt. I hear it continuously >> accessing the hard drive, but can't do anything. This sometimes happens when >> I revive it by pressing a key after it's been idle for several hours, but >> also see it in some other less well-defined circumstances. (One thing I >> found was that opening the Files and Folders screen, so I don't use that >> anymore, sticking with Gnome Commander.) When this happens, all I can do is >> forcibly power down then power it back up. >> >> I seem to remember there being scripts, and possibly even software >> packages, that straightened this stuff out, but I'm not seeing them anymore. >> >> BTW, I hated the Unity interface when I first experienced it, but have >> grown to like it. With the help of Gnome Do, a bunch of Firefox plugins, >> Dropbox, and a few other tools, this is a surprisingly useful little PC. >> >> So... does anyone have any pointers on getting 10.10 to work better on >> this Eee? >> >> [0] http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=5AH8HAdGuhiQIXgg >> -- >> Joseph Zitt ::http://www.josephzitt.com >> > > > > -- > Joseph Zitt ::http://www.josephzitt.com > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-us-ohio > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-us-ohio > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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