computer runing slow

[Al Gordon]

On 8/3/06, Ken Siersma <siersmak at ekkinc.com> wrote:
> William Biggs wrote:
> > all the time
> > On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 11:08 -0400, Scott Sweeny wrote:
> >
> >> On 8/3/06, William Biggs <kc8pdr at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I have a athlon 64bit 512 160g hard drive but when I run unbutu 6.06 the
> >>> computer run's slow
> >>>
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> >>>
> >> Is it slow all the time or only when you run certain programs?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> Could you better define 'runs slow'?
>
> For example, does it boot slowly?  Does it respond sluggishly?  Does it
> just seem to be slow to draw things on the screen or does it seem to be
> the whole system?  Have you run any benchmarks?  Did you used to have a
> different version of linux on there and/or Windows, and it didn't run
> slowly then?
>
> Help us help you.
> -Ken

Agreed.  It's very little info to start with.

A few things that I can think to ask for specifically, to start out:

1) Just to make sure: You're running from an installed copy of Lunux,
right?  Not the Ubuntu live cd?

2) Open up a terminal (click Applications/Accessories/Terminal) and
run the command: "top".  Look below where it says %CPU and %MEM and
COMMAND.  Is there a particular command that seems to be taking a lot
of CPU and/or memory on your system?

3) You might want to run the command (also in the terminal): "ps aux",
and mail the results to the list.  This is a a command similar to top,
but is less interactive.  It would show us what's running on your PC,
along with some details regarding the status of each application (such
as whether or not it's hogging CPU/memory, etc.).

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  -- AL --