On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 08:29 +0100, Paul Webster wrote: > Hi (again)! I'm a relative newcomer to Ubuntu, a refugee from the > Windows Wonderland, and I like it very much. However, lately the hard > disk churns and churns, almost all the time, and startup is very slow. > Even writing this email has taken a long time, because sometimes > everything else comes to a halt. > > Please, somebody, help! > > Paul
Hi Paul, There's a couple of places to look to find the rogue process. First have a look in top (open a terminal, type top) and that should give you a list of everything that's eating your resources. If it's HD thats being eaten, install iotop (open a terminal sudo apt-get install iotop) and then run it (in a terminal type iotop) and that will tell you what's using all of your IO. Have a look at those, see if you can identify whats eating your HD, then report back and we'll see what we can do :) -Matt Daubney
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