Re: [Hampshire] Machine lock up and disk thrashing

> After it has been used for a little while, I will try and do
> something, like watch a different channel or recording, and the
> machine grinds to an almost halt, with the hard disk thrashing away.

Mine's done something similar in the past. (although it's still been
usable - if amazingly slow).

Check to see if you have any swap left. If the swap fills up, it has real
trouble even swapping processes in/out...

Firefox is always the problem for me. Kill that & the machine comes back
to life.

Vic.