I'm running Ubuntu 14.10, and for the past couple of days, I'm facing graphics stuttering all over Unity, which mainly affects text and various parts of Unity (refer to screenshot).
And this particularly happens when I'm using several apps simultaneously like, Chrome (latest), multiple tabs open in Terminal (running node-http-server). And only way I can fix it is by rebooting or by logging out (i.e. resetting Unity session).
Note that it is 5 year old laptop with 3 GB of RAM, 2.0 Ghz dual-core Intel processor, 512 MB of swap memory (using swapfile
mounted as Swap memory in /
), with only Intel on-board graphics.
What could be the possible cause? as I'm suspecting it is possibly due to low swap memory but this never occurred to me on 14.04.