Re: [OxLUG] Ubuntu grey screen

Thanks, I have it running and I'll try and catch it
red handed!
I've just realised it tends not to happen so much after the PC has been
running a while!

Peter

Hubert Matthews wrote:

Peter Green wrote:


I have for a while now been having problems with my Ubuntu 8.04 desktop
freezing and greying out for quite a few seconds at a time on several
app's. I notice that the HDD is going mad whilst this is happening but I
have no idea what's going on or why, maybe someone could shed some light
on this for me?



You could use iotop to see what process is using the disk.