I subscribe Alexey's comments. I've just started my laptop and the only things I've done are installing today's and yesterday's updates (54), create a tarball via Nautilus, check my e-mail and edit a LaTeX file (didn't compile it). This is the output of free:
$ free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 503 451 52 0 51 233 -/+ buffers/cache: 166 336 Swap: 517 33 483 And the uptime is... $ uptime 10:20:05 up 23 min, 2 users, load average: 0.02, 1.02, 1.37 Fortunately, since my gutsy system is installed from scratch, I didn't get the incredible slowdown in responsiveness I used to get on a dist-upgraded machine. -- Heavy Disk I/O harms desktop responsiveness https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/131094 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs