What applications are slow? Firefox? Anything else? I would echo the recommendation to install adblock plus in firefox. And then block advertisements with motion. It makes a huge difference in the speed of firefox. -- Allen Brown abrown at peak.org http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown/ A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a workstation. What more can I say? -- anon
----- Original Message ----- From: "Joseph Weston Morgan" <[email protected]> To: "Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 6:13:51 PM Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] Fwd: slow system 1. is it a resource limit? It does not seem to be pushing the resource limit. Is your CPU running flat-out? Or are you out of memory? Are you running so many processes that you are constantly swapping? 1. Is it a hardware problem? I don't see it as a hardware problem. I have a dual boot with XP, and XP is not having the same problem. XP seems to be running as usual. Are you getting sense errors for your disk? Memory errors? The disk checking that is run after every 20 or 30 boots, does not show any errors. Lets see if the print screens show up here. On 01/21/2011 02:42 PM, Larry Price wrote: Wes, It's important to figure out why your system is slowing to a crawl first. 1. is it a resource limit? Is your CPU running flat-out? Or are you out of memory? Are you running so many processes that you are constantly swapping? 2. Is it a hardware problem? Are you getting sense errors for your disk? Memory errors? It may be something you can alter by setting a configuration variable (usually sysctl, but there are some things you can set in fstab and elsewhere that will drastically improve system performance in _some_ cases). Building a new Kernel won't hose your system if you follow the published instructions for installing it as a package, in that you should be able to revert to the current kernel if the new one won't boot or is otherwise dysfunctional. But you will need to back up your system before you start doing radical surgery on it. HTH, Larry On Jan 21, 2011, at 12:53 PM, Joseph Weston Morgan wrote: -------- 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-rc7 kernel, 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 / ~kernel-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 / ~kernel- 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 / ~kernel-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 > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
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