On 6 February 2013 22:30, Gareth France <gareth.fra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> My system has never been much cop. Despite being only 5 months old it > struggles to play an mp3 and browse the web at the same time. No idea why. > However tonight it ground to a halt, the hard drive access light went mad > and the mouse stopped moving. Then it moved in jerks and a variety of > windows greyed out and came back again over and over. The system did > recover eventually but I've never seen Ubuntu act in this way, something I > used to see all the time with Windows. > > I was able to load the system monitor and capture a few snapshots of the > running processes. They don't look right to me, the useage of Thunderbird > and Firefox seems far too high and the duplicated processes seemed a bit > odd too. I just wondered what you guys made of it. > > www.cliftonts.co.uk/system1.png > www.cliftonts.co.uk/system2.png > > -- > I had this with 9.04 64 bit on a Dell XPS with a Mobile Centrino CPU and it also related to Firefox, Thunderbird and Adobe plugins - YouTube would cause the Flash plugin to spin up to 99% CPU as it seems to be on the way to doing on your machine. Adobe Air also did the same, so the answer was to stop using Adobe products. I never really got to the bottom of it and it didn't happen with 10.04 and hasn't happened since. s/ -- Twitter: @sfgreenwood "TBA are particularly glib"
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