> I have 30 GB unused disk space and 500MB of ram. Firefox can be a real memory hog.
To answer previous questions about *what* is taking up your resources, on the cmd line enter top and paste the header lines (showing mem, swap, etc.) and the following 10 or so lines into your email. Copy right after a screen refresh, and quit 'top' with 'q' - Horst ________________________________ From: Joseph Weston Morgan <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, January 21, 2011 12:53:58 PM Subject: [Eug-lug] Fwd: slow system -------- Original Message -------- Subject: slow system Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 18:03:09 -0800 From: Joseph Weston Morgan <[email protected]> To: [email protected] My system is slowing to a crawl. I have gone through the forums and have found that updating the kernel can solve the problem. If I don't do this right, could it screw up my entire system? I am running Ubuntu 10.10. I have 30 GB unused disk space and 500MB of ram. Wes Morgan Is your Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick slow and sluggish? Make it run better. By Vik ⋅ October 27, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment Filed Under 10.10, amd64, kernel, lag, linux, maverick, meerkat, power, slow, sluggish, ubuntu, wget, x86 I recently installed the latest (10.10) version of Ubuntu. My oh my. Its really unpolished under the hood to say the least. Loved the new font, love the background. But, as soon as I started using it on full power (Firefox with 30+ tabs, Compiz), it just borked. I experienced 15 second lags and it was a wholly unhappy experience. Searching through the forums proved that I wasn’t the only one who was suffering. Aware of the fact that a re-install of 10.04 would cost me hours, I was sure there was a solution out there. Thats when I stumbled across this post in Ubuntu Forums. EDIT:Skip to updated instructions at the bottom. Upgrade your kernel to 2.6.36-rc7kernel, and you’re going to see a considerable improvement. Instructions as follows: 1 2 3 <del datetime="2010-10-26T18:54:00+00:00">sudo su - cd / wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/%7Ekernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.36-rc7- maverick/linux-headers-2.6.36-020636rc7_2.6.36-020636rc7.201010070908_all.deb</del> For x64 1 2 <del datetime="2010-10-26T18:54:00+00:00">wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/%7Ekernel- ppa/mainline/v2.6.36-rc7-maverick/linux-headers-2.6.36-020636rc7-generic_ 2.6.36-020636rc7.201010070908_amd64.deb wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/%7Ekernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.36-rc7-maverick/linux- image-2.6.36-020636rc7-generic_2.6.36-020636rc7.201010070908_amd64.deb</del> For x86 1 2 3 <del datetime="2010-10-26T18:54:00+00:00">wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~ kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.36-rc7-maverick/linux-headers-2.6.36-020636rc7- generic_2.6.36-020636rc7.201010070908_i386.deb wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.36-rc7- maverick/linux-image-2.6.36-020636rc7-generic_2.6.36-020636rc7.201010070908_i386.deb dpkg -i linux-headers-2.6.36-020636rc7_2.6.36-020636rc7.201010070908_all.deb</del> And, to end, depending on which version you’ve downloaded, change the following code to suit your needs: 1 2 <del datetime="2010-10-26T18:54:00+00:00">dpkg -i linux-headers-2.6.36-020636rc7 -generic_2.6.36-020636rc7.201010070908_amd64.deb dpkg -i linux-image-2.6.36-020636rc7-generic_2.6.36-020636rc7. 201010070908_i386.deb</del>
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