[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu unusably slow

[Gareth France]

On 07/02/13 11:57, Simon Greenwood wrote:
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> On 7 February 2013 11:52, Gareth France <gareth.france at gmail.com 
> <mailto:gareth.france at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     On 07/02/13 11:11, Simon Greenwood wrote:
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>>     On 7 February 2013 10:43, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com
>>     <mailto:clanlaw at googlemail.com>> wrote:
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>>         On 7 February 2013 10:31, Simon Greenwood
>>         <sfgreenwood at gmail.com <mailto:sfgreenwood at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>         > ..
>>         > On 7 February 2013 10:17, Gareth France
>>         <gareth.france at gmail.com <mailto:gareth.france at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>>         >> Thanks Alan. I think the thing that gets to me is that
>>         aside from whatever
>>         >> I may choose to run on it I expect a machine I paid £300
>>         for to run properly
>>         >> to begin with. None of these solutions address the
>>         problem. They more sort
>>         >> of side step it. I doubt I'm going to find the problem,
>>         I'll just have to
>>         >> avoid Packard Bell next time I upgrade.
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>>         > In all honesty, that is the place to start. Packard Bell
>>         machines are built
>>         > to a price, and it's fairly likely that they need OS-based
>>         accelerators to
>>         > work properly. I'm not familiar with that processor but
>>         there are probably
>>         > features that aren't supported by Linux and require
>>         Windows-native software,
>>         > and the GPU will be integrated and underpowered. I've had
>>         similar problems
>>         > in the past with more expensive machines and have since
>>         learned my lesson.
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>>         The guy is not talking about just not getting the ultimate
>>         out of the
>>         machine, he has problems such as "tonight it ground to a
>>         halt, the
>>         hard drive access light went mad and the mouse stopped
>>         moving. Then it
>>         moved in jerks and a variety of windows greyed out and came
>>         back again
>>         over and over."  That is a software problem of some sort.
>>          Something
>>         is gobbling up his processor or/and his RAM.
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>>     Yes, I agree, and as previously described, I have seen exactly
>>     this problem, and on what would seem to be a more powerful
>>     machine. In the first instance, disable Flash and see if that
>>     stops or reduces the CPU load. In my experience it will. However,
>>     it doesn't solve the problem, and this is where I came to a halt
>>     with trying to analyse it. It is likely to be a combination of
>>     the Flash plugin, Compiz and the physical hardware, possibly one
>>     that hasn't been identified before, so to get some progress, it
>>     needs to be documented.
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>>     However, I believe my point still stands: for all the work done
>>     to maximise compatibility, there are always going to be machines
>>     that don't play for less obvious reasons, especially at the low
>>     cost end of the market, and the rule still should be that if you
>>     want to use a Linux desktop of any kind do a little bit of
>>     homework. There is the official compatibility wiki but if you get
>>     the model number of any laptop and put it into Google, someone
>>     will have attempted to run Linux on it and reported on it.
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>>     s/
>>     -- 
>>     Twitter: @sfgreenwood
>>     "TBA are particularly glib"
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>     Just to update everyone flash blocker didn't manage 5 minutes
>     before both Firefox and system monitor  greyed out simply because
>     I tried to close the monitor. As I'm typing this email Thunderbird
>     keeps greying out and the text appears on the screen up to 45
>     seconds after I typed it. (So apologies for any spelling
>     mistakes.) Rhythmbox is playing, well stuttering. That seems to be
>     the biggest problem, I have noticed flash can be a drain but any
>     media playing and it greatly increases the chance that the system
>     will halt.
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> Try starting Firefox and Thunderbird in safe mode. It's Help > Restart 
> with addons disabled in both, and see how if that improves things.
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> s/
> -- 
> Twitter: @sfgreenwood
> "TBA are particularly glib"
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I've switched to chromium to see what difference that makes. I'll try 
restarting thunderbird and see what happens
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