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[Discuss] Very slow system, no idle, but nothing running



On 4/22/2012 8:49 AM, Mark Woodward wrote:
> I think the dead give away is the swap numbers

Seconded.  You've got 2GB in there with 50MB free.  You have 1.5GB of 
swap with 80MB free.  You've run out of memory and swap, a situation 
that Linux really doesn't like.  Either add more RAM or kill whatever is 
chewing up so much swap.  Or both.

-- 
Rich P.



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