[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 9.04 Performance Issue

[Harry Rickards]

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Alan Pope wrote:
> 2009/4/29 Nigel Verity <nigelverity at hotmail.com>:
>> A few days ago I upgraded to 9.04 but was, frankly, disappointed. The application I use most of all is OpenOffice. The upgrade certainly sees boot times reduced, but OOO Base takes approx 10 times as long to load, Calc 5 times and Writer 3 times. Similarly, they take much longer to unload.
>>
> 
> I wonder if this is a wubi specific issue. I find Ubuntu tremendously
> faster on my machine, installed on the bare metal. How full is the
> filesystem that Ubuntu is sat on? Is there a mad amount of IO going
> on?
> 
> Maybe run "top" and "iotop" (available to install in the standard
> repository), and see what's at the top of the list when you notice
> slowness?
> 
> Cheers,
> Al.
> 
Instead of downgrading to 8.10, you could also downgrade from OpenOffice
3.0 to 2.0, as 3.0 was the version installed with Ubuntu 9.04.

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Many thanks
Harry Rickards (a.k.a l33tmyst)

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