I recently installed Linux MATE (I was using MINT for a long time and did not have the following issue) but since installing MATE my harddisk activity hasn’t stopped even though very little is running. I tried iotop-0.6 but the output means nothing to me. (BTW I have 6gb RAM)
does anyone have any suggestions where I can start.
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This new machine I'm using sports a core i5 Skylake, and a hefty 16GB of RAM.
I noticed recently that right after startup, it's sometimes extremely slow, even for simple tasks such as opening caja.
Here's what my standard battery of indicators was showing during one such occurence:
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(CPU, Memory, Network, Disk I/O)
Note that the disk activity is intensive and that a significant amount of CPU is used waiting for I/O too. (Dark blue stuff on the image)
I further installed iotop a…
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Hello Guys,
I have been using Ubuntu MATE for a while and so far it has been smooth.
Some days ago my computer started to take long time (like to 2min) to open Caja, this only happens when i open it the first time, after that it will work normal.
So i searched in lots of places and didn’t find any topic related to this issue in any forum, that’s why I’m asking here.
So where can i start looking for Caja logs to start debugging this?
I have Ubuntu MATE 16.10 with today’s latest updates, i ha…
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