So I'm new to Kubuntu and whenever I try to load a game (so far it's happened with any Linux game that I've tried) it goes fine for a bit, then the computer starts freezing up and I can't do anything. Watching iotop while this happens the IO> on almost everything shoots up to 99.99%. I've tried everything I can think of and what I could find on Google to solve this and nothing seems to help. It's not the HDD because I've tried on two seperate HDD's one that I know for a fact is good. The games I'm trying also run fine on Windows. Does anybody know what could be the cause of this, or how to solve it?
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How much ram do you have? Are you hitting swap? This would cause the heavy i/o as it is using hdd space to supplement ram.
Even if you have a decent amount of ram, some systems seem to jump to swap too early.
If you are using swap a bit too aggressively, you can try adjusting the 'swappiness' to alleviate this:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwapFaq
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Could you please describe your hardware, particularly how old it is, how much RAM, and what storage devices there are?Regards, John LittleComment
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