Is My Filesystem Corrupt or Something?

Solution 1:

Since you say it runs fine for five minutes, that's your window of opportunity to get some monitoring tools running.

First, install iotop and htop :

sudo apt-get install iotop htop

Then start a terminal for each and run them (just "iotop" and "htop", one in each terminal). Then wait for the stuttering to start happening and see what causes it.

Another place to look might be dmesg - perhaps start a third terminal and run the command :

tail -f /var/log/kern.log

(instead of just running "dmesg" directly, because you're interested in constantly monitoring the system as you wait for the stuttering to begin).

These steps should help pinpoint what might be causing your issues.