Jenda
December 28th, 2009, 04:24 PM
Hi.
I am using Ubuntu 9.10, and I run a lot of applications at once. The ones that are always present are Azureus, Firefox, Thunderbird, Virualbox (running Windows XP and MSO 2007), OpenOffice quicklauncher, Tomboy and irssi. I have the system monitor applet on the panel, and check it regularly, so I know there are no other performance issues.
Sometimes, when I copy files (either to a USB device or by FTP) with nautilus, the I/O color of the applet fills it entirely. When this happens, the system becomes choppy and barely usable. Sometimes, this passes after about 20-30 minutes, but usually it doesn't, and I often can't afford to wait that long. At other times, it just freezes entirely and doesn't respond to anything (sometimes with the exception of switching to console via Ctrl+Alt+F1 VERY slowly, but even there, I can hardly type in a command after a while).
Could this be caused by an aging hard drive? (The lappy is 2years old). What are the other possible causes for this?
I am using Ubuntu 9.10, and I run a lot of applications at once. The ones that are always present are Azureus, Firefox, Thunderbird, Virualbox (running Windows XP and MSO 2007), OpenOffice quicklauncher, Tomboy and irssi. I have the system monitor applet on the panel, and check it regularly, so I know there are no other performance issues.
Sometimes, when I copy files (either to a USB device or by FTP) with nautilus, the I/O color of the applet fills it entirely. When this happens, the system becomes choppy and barely usable. Sometimes, this passes after about 20-30 minutes, but usually it doesn't, and I often can't afford to wait that long. At other times, it just freezes entirely and doesn't respond to anything (sometimes with the exception of switching to console via Ctrl+Alt+F1 VERY slowly, but even there, I can hardly type in a command after a while).
Could this be caused by an aging hard drive? (The lappy is 2years old). What are the other possible causes for this?