On 7 February 2013 16:25, Gareth France <gareth.fra...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 07/02/13 16:20, Colin Law wrote: >> >> On 7 February 2013 15:55, Gareth France <gareth.fra...@gmail.com> 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 <alan.p...@canonical.com> 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 >> >> Do you have a vast library of music, possibly on an external drive or >> something? Google shows that, at least historically, >> unity-music-daemon and the music lens have been problematic in their >> use of resources. >> >> By the way, you can use Ctrl-Shift-C to copy out of the terminal. >> >> Colin >> >>> >>> -- >>> ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com >>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk >>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > > I wasn't sure about copying from a terminal output that won't sit still. Yes > my library is very large but shrinking. I used to be a DJ and now I've > stopped I have a copy of all my music on the hard drive, whenever a song I > don't like plays I delete it. I don't expect the end result to be too big. I > did wonder if that might be the cause of the gaps in playback. It doesn't > however explain why my antique laptop coped with that or any of the other > related issues that happen even when I'm not playing music. Although I > understand that the lenses in unity run all the time at the moment, I did > think perhaps the new approach in 13.04 might be lighter on the resources.
Did you mention previously that you were using 13.04? Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
