The entire User Interface freezes/becomes unresponsive for up to 20 seconds

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Published on 2013-11-12T07:55:39Z Indexed on 2013/11/13 10:11 UTC
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I am a rails developer, using Ubuntu 13.10 installed on a Asus S550C Ultrabook (was a windows 8 machine originally)

Every day I work with Sublime Text 2, Google Chrome, and Terminal (about 6 tabs open)

The problem:

clicking on the menu bar (eg File -> Save) while using Sublime Text 2 will occasionally (eg almost always) make the ENTIRE COMPUTER freeze for up to 20 seconds.

This occasionally happens when I go to log out / lock my computer. Sometimes it doesn't freeze completely but rather is just very sluggish and then recovers.

I don't know if this is a problem with Sublime Text 2, or the Ubuntu 13.10 operating system.

(Thanks for reading) Best Regards

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