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I have a GT5411E Gateway. Intel Pentium D 914 Dual core 64 bit. Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950. 500G hdd. 2 g of ram. Swap is listed at 3 g and it is on.

This is not dual boot, only Linux.

When I get booted and click on the menu it will take about 45-60 seconds before there is a response. Same with any program I try to run, but some times 2 minutes.

I have updated and gone to Synaptic and upgraded anything that was marked as needing update. I have gone to preferences and stopped almost everything that was on start-up.

I searched Google and have changed cache and memory loading time.

free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          1992       1522        470        103        191        779
-/+ buffers/cache:        551       1440
Swap:          996          0        996
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  • Try running top in a terminal, or running the system monitor tool. Is there anything specific which is using a lot of CPU % ? – Jonas Czech Jul 03 '16 at 21:25
  • I would imagine iowaits are high. Delays of intermittent length often indicate a failing hard drive. Have you checked the SMART status of your drive as outlined here? http://askubuntu.com/questions/528072/how-can-i-check-the-smart-status-of-a-drive-on-ubuntu-14-04-through-16-04 – Elder Geek Jul 03 '16 at 21:34
  • @JonasCz I ran top and the highest CPU% is the browser from 2 to 12% at times. The rest is .1, .3 , 1.7% –  Jul 03 '16 at 21:41
  • @Elder Geek Yes, thank you. I ran the program and it does not look good .Pre-Fail and Old-Age. Uncorrectable Sector count 127 sectors. Self-Test Failed. –  Jul 03 '16 at 22:14
  • @DavidBreeden Sorry to hear that. Back up all your data ASAP – Elder Geek Jul 03 '16 at 22:17

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Delays of intermittent length often indicate a failing hard drive. Check Smart status to be certain. Sadly you may just have to replace the drive. Backup all your critical data as soon as possible as data recovery can be challenging from a failed drive.

Source: Experience

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