Re: [SLUG] ubuntu unity slow
On 27/10/14 08:02, Ashley Maher wrote: ... running Unity Desktop. ... Well, there's your problem! As they say on Mythbusters. ;-) Have you tried it with MATE? http://www.webupd8.org/2014/10/ubuntu-mate-sees-its-first-release-1410.html -- Tom Worthington FACS CP, TomW Communications Pty Ltd. t: 0419496150 The Higher Education Whisperer http://blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/ PO Box 13, Belconnen ACT 2617, Australia http://www.tomw.net.au Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Research School of Computer Science, Australian National University http://cs.anu.edu.au/courses/COMP7310/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] ubuntu unity slow
Afternoon, Hope there are a few Ubuntu users around? Have Ubuntu 14.04 running Unity Desktop. The hardware is i7 model 26, 12 Gig RAM, Cape Verde PRO Radeon HD 7750, Graphics driver in use: radeon, driving a 30inch Dell at 2560 X 1600. Opening a terminal and using vim is fine. However NetBeans IDE 8.0 is so slow as to be unusable. Eclipse is totally out of the question. Mail reader works, Libre Office is okay, GIMP is fine. Anybody got ideas as to where to start debugging this?? Regards, Ashley -- == Ashley Maher Director Didymo Designs Phone: 1300 762 599 (+61 2) 8090 2847 (+61 2) 4203 2716 Mob: 0412 351 451 Fax: (+61 2) 8002 0071 Web: http://www.didymodesigns.com.au P.O. Box 410 North Sydney NSW 2059 P.O. Box 1122 Wollongong NSW 2500 Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] ubuntu unity slow
Maybe it's Java that's slow? Try a different JDK maybe? -- Felix On 27/10/14 08:02, Ashley Maher wrote: Afternoon, Hope there are a few Ubuntu users around? Have Ubuntu 14.04 running Unity Desktop. The hardware is i7 model 26, 12 Gig RAM, Cape Verde PRO Radeon HD 7750, Graphics driver in use: radeon, driving a 30inch Dell at 2560 X 1600. Opening a terminal and using vim is fine. However NetBeans IDE 8.0 is so slow as to be unusable. Eclipse is totally out of the question. Mail reader works, Libre Office is okay, GIMP is fine. Anybody got ideas as to where to start debugging this?? Regards, Ashley -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] ubuntu unity slow
if I wasn't so committed to Ubuntu I would have ditched it by now... it's painfully slow I stayed with Unity because that's what Ubuntu is doing and I didn't want to be Canute, but I have no idea what they were thinking with Unity. Sorry... that doesn't help debug it :( On 27/10/14 08:02, Ashley Maher wrote: Afternoon, Hope there are a few Ubuntu users around? Have Ubuntu 14.04 running Unity Desktop. The hardware is i7 model 26, 12 Gig RAM, Cape Verde PRO Radeon HD 7750, Graphics driver in use: radeon, driving a 30inch Dell at 2560 X 1600. Opening a terminal and using vim is fine. However NetBeans IDE 8.0 is so slow as to be unusable. Eclipse is totally out of the question. Mail reader works, Libre Office is okay, GIMP is fine. Anybody got ideas as to where to start debugging this?? Regards, Ashley -- David McQuire 0418 310312 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] ubuntu unity slow
Sounds like you have correlation between Java and slowness. What's the Java configuration like? Do you tweaked the JVM settings to take advantage of the larger RAM, for instance? On 27 October 2014 09:08, Felix Sheldon dark...@internode.on.net wrote: Maybe it's Java that's slow? Try a different JDK maybe? -- Felix On 27/10/14 08:02, Ashley Maher wrote: Afternoon, Hope there are a few Ubuntu users around? Have Ubuntu 14.04 running Unity Desktop. The hardware is i7 model 26, 12 Gig RAM, Cape Verde PRO Radeon HD 7750, Graphics driver in use: radeon, driving a 30inch Dell at 2560 X 1600. Opening a terminal and using vim is fine. However NetBeans IDE 8.0 is so slow as to be unusable. Eclipse is totally out of the question. Mail reader works, Libre Office is okay, GIMP is fine. Anybody got ideas as to where to start debugging this?? Regards, Ashley -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- http://au.linkedin.com/in/gliderflyer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] ubuntu unity slow
On 27/10/14 08:02, Ashley Maher wrote: Opening a terminal and using vim is fine. However NetBeans IDE 8.0 is so slow as to be unusable. Eclipse is totally out of the question. Interesting. I had a similar experience with the Ubiquiti AirControl2 and Cisco ASDM software, which is so slow as to be unusable, but other applications run perfectly fine. NetBeans, Eclipse, AirControl2, and Cisco ASDM are all Java–based, so possibly some correlation there. So far I haven’t found a direct cause, although I have an NVIDIA–based system where they run smoothly, but all the machines that have issues are Intel–based. I don’t have any Radeon–based systems, I’m afraid. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
