[ubuntu-uk] Feeling tortured by Ubuntu

[Kris Douglas]

Are there known problems with severe slowdowns with the PAE Kern?

If that's a pretty good contender to being the problem I will wipe the
machine in a heartbeat.

Sent from my Desire HD running CM7
On Oct 18, 2011 1:33 PM, "Dave Morley" <davmor2 at davmor2.co.uk> wrote:

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> On 18/10/11 13:31, Kris Douglas wrote:
> > On 18 October 2011 13:08, Simon Greenwood <sfgreenwood at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On 18 October 2011 12:49, Kris Douglas <krisdouglas at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hello, I use Ubuntu in the workplace, I am having a problem
> >>> with it at the moment that is beginning to drive me a bit mad.
> >>>
> >>> I have upgraded to the latest version this week, and I am
> >>> seeing graphical artefacts every so often, which is new, but
> >>> they do go away after I have logged in. The worst problem I am
> >>> having, is after around 6-10 hours of use, the system begins to
> >>> run slowly, and by that I mean the interface becomes a lot less
> >>> responsive, etc.
> >>>
> >>> I have tried downgrading and upgrading my Nvidia 9600GT card's
> >>> drivers and it has had little effect.
> >>>
> >>> This is denting my productivity now and I was wondering if
> >>> anyone had a solution to the problem I am experiencing?
> >>>
> >>
> >> Which architecture are you using? Which drivers are you using at
> >> the moment? Does the system seem to start to labour? Does the GPU
> >> fan spin up? Open a command line and run top, is anything taking
> >> a lot of CPU? I had similar problems on my Dell XPS M1330 running
> >> 64-bit a couple of years ago and while never getting to the
> >> bottom of the problem apart from identifying it as something to
> >> do with java and flash in Firefox, the usable solution was to run
> >> 32-bit with PAE.
> >
> >
> > I am running 32 bit with PAE, 6GB RAM, 9600GT running NVidia
> > 280.13
> >
> > Latest version of Ubuntu running Unity 3D, same problem happened
> > with gnome 2.
> >
> > Happens if I have programs open or not, there are no rogue
> > processes and no excessive memory usage when the slowdown occurs.
> >
> >
> >
> It maybe an issue with the pae kernel have you though about trying
> 64bit at all?
>
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