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[David Steele <daves@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sounds like it is thrashing swap. Can you run 'top' somewhere to monitor for
memory hogs? ( 'M' to sort by memory usage)

On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Joseph Zitt <jzitt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Following up, a month later:
>
> Well, it looks like I've figured out all these problems -- except the most
> vexing one. Printing, the external monitor, the keyboard, all do what I
> expect them to, on my Asus Eee 1001P running Ubuntu 10.10.
>
> The system still will go into a state in which the disk sounds like it's
> thrashing endlessly and the interface freezes. I can sometimes nudge the
> mouse pointer a little, but that's it. The only thing to do is to forcibly
> power down. This has been happening, pretty much consistently, after it's
> been up for an hour or two, when I've gone a little while without using the
> keyboard or mouse. This happens both when I'm running the Netbook edition
> with the Unity interface and the Desktop edition with the Gnome interface.
> It does not happen when I run Windows 7 on the same hardware.
>
> Unfortunately, this happens consistently enough that I end up running
> Windows most of the time. Since I prefer Linux and am more comfortable with
> it, I would like to run Ubuntu on the system as my default, only hopping
> over to Windows for specific tasks (such as managing my iPhone, which I
> would leave to my PowerPC Mac running OS X Panther, except that, like a lot
> of people, I can't get it to talk to my 2WIRE DSL connection effectively).
>
> Searching the web, I haven't found other instances of the problem with
> Ubuntu freezing up, but I may not be searching on the right terms.
>
> Might this added info point to a solution?
>
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:17 PM, Joseph Zitt <jzitt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> First, my apologies for posting outside the key topics of politics or
>> dentistry.
>>
>> I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition with the Unity interface on an
>> Asus Eee 1001P. [0]
>>
>> The system has some quirks, such as starting with the keyboard NumLocked
>> (which led me to think that i couldn't log in at all until I realized it)
>> and not supporting an external monitor well.
>>
>> It also sometime grinds effectively to a halt. I hear it continuously
>> accessing the hard drive, but can't do anything. This sometimes happens when
>> I revive it by pressing a key after it's been idle for several hours, but
>> also see it in some other less well-defined circumstances. (One thing I
>> found was that opening the Files and Folders screen, so I don't use that
>> anymore, sticking with Gnome Commander.) When this happens, all I can do is
>> forcibly power down then power it back up.
>>
>> I seem to remember there being scripts, and possibly even software
>> packages, that straightened this stuff out, but I'm not seeing them anymore.
>>
>> BTW, I hated the Unity interface when I first experienced it, but have
>> grown to like it. With the help of Gnome Do, a bunch of Firefox plugins,
>> Dropbox, and a few other tools, this is a surprisingly useful little PC.
>>
>> So... does anyone have any pointers on getting 10.10 to work better on
>> this Eee?
>>
>> [0] http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=5AH8HAdGuhiQIXgg
>>  --
>> Joseph Zitt ::http://www.josephzitt.com
>>
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