Hi recently ran a live version of simplymepis to see what it looked like
it booted quickly and ran through its load up of KDE very fast , working on it was quite good to - ran multiple operations - word processor, spreadsheet, internet a music player etc. Sometimes the system would slow down , i guess waiting for the cd to catch up with the commands. this is on my laptop which is running Ubuntu 8.10. I am finding that ubuntu is slow to boot up and when i open multiple functions the CPU usage goes up like crazy - on of the dual cores reaches 100 % and the average is very high - like 40 - 50 % (when i noticed) generally things seem slow. RAM is about 1.5 GB and Swap is 2.8 GB Processor Dual Core t2400 at 1.83 MHz. hard Disk is pretty full at about 90 + % *** My root is about 75% used (5.3 GB used). I won't say i have extraordinary amounts of software installed. My desktop use bars have a fair bit of icons on them, my desktop is medium clean ( i know in windows things slow down when the desktop is stuffed but thought that is not a problem in Linux) *** When i use openoffice (version 3) sometimes when some specific functions are happening the system almost freezes - like when pasting images into writer, or pasting a section of a web page - with links etc, or when i am manually scrolling and selecting cells in calc spreadsheet. ** Am wondering if anyone else has seen / felt such slowdowns and what could be the causes. Also what can be done to improve speeds. ram -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
