Thank you very much for your clever remarks. You're right, I am not using a swap partition according to `swapon -s'. I didn't know this (because I have one set up at hda1). So I'm only using my 472mb ram (512 minus onboard mem). But this actually means that Ubuntu is using much more memory than I though it did.
And it doesn't really explain why sometimes my load rises above 6.00... if Linux is out of memory it just kills a process right? And why is my harddisk freaking out in activity when my load rises so high? I don't really understand that :-) If anyone has suggestions I'd love to hear it. In the meantime I'll activate my swap and see what it does. -- Edgy is slow and can't handle multiple apps well https://launchpad.net/bugs/73887 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
