Slow computer

[Ori Idan]

Ubuntu slowing down, might be a memory leak.
Firefox is known to have memory leaks, restart firefox and see if it helps.
Also try to run top and see what consumes memory.

-- 
Ori Idan


On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 2:47 PM, David M. Pelly <david.pelly at hotmail.ca>wrote:

>  My computer slowed right down yesterday and still is slow today.
>
> It is is as it has a virus or something.
>
> Any suggestions on how to fix it?
>
> I have 12.04 Ubuntu.
>
> Only had it for a month or so.
>
> David
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> ------------------------------
> Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 12:24:36 -0400
> Subject: Re: back up
> From: james2432 at gmail.com
> To: ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com
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> it was an example.....
> I'm sure your name isn't yourname either.....
>
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Ori Idan <ori at helicontech.co.il> wrote:
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> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 7:14 PM, James <james2432 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> the terminal command:
> cp -R /home/yourname /media/usb
> Will copy everything you have access to
>
>
> One comment: /media will contain a folder with the volume name of the
> stick so it may not always be /media/usb
> I just tested it on my system and it is /media/16D2-D0BB where 16D2-D0BB
> is the volume name of my USB stick.
>
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> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Tony Yarusso <tonyyarusso at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> One thing you need to be careful of is that many methods of copying
> files over do not include the hidden ("dot") files by default, and you
> may want those.
>
>  - Tony
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