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continuous hard disk access - slowing down my machine

I find from the hard disk access LED on the front of my machine that the hard disk is being accessed more often and probably because of that, my machine is quite slow. The machine becomes unresponsive ...
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Ubuntu 10.04 slow on a Dell Optiplex 360

My desktop is becoming very slow - even when the load as displayed by the w command is around 2 or so. I run eclipse, crashplan, dropbox, and some times matlab. Chrome is the browser used. I have 4GB ...
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Ubuntu 10.04 system- has got VERY slow off-late. How to unearth the problem

In case this question is too subjective/violates any rules of StackOverflow, my apologies. I have been running processor and memory intensive tasks past 2 weeks. But, even after i stop the run, ...
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Linux disk access slows down system

My system slows down even when the CPU load is less than 100%, and I think it's doing this because it's writing to the swap partition. Yes, my swap partition is on a different disk than my OS. I ...
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Tuning performance of Ubuntu 10.04 on Compaq Evo W4000

I got this computer free and installed Ubuntu 10.04 on it + updates, plus followed the following tutorial all the way: ...
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Xubuntu vs Ubuntu 10.04 Performance

I know it just came out today, but are there any statistics with memory requirements, system resources, power usage, and performance to decide which is better Xubuntu or Ubuntu (XFCE vs Gnome)? My ...