computer runing slow

[Eberhard Roloff]

Hi,
please be so kind and answer BELOW the answers that you get,
otherwise this mail conversation will quickly be unreadable for
most users on this list. I'll continue below....

On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 11:52:04 -0400
William Biggs <kc8pdr at gmail.com> wrote:

> I had it on there but fire fox keep on closing every 30 sec.
> When I try to run flash  
> On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 16:33 +0100, cantormath wrote:
> > William Biggs;1333620 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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> > Did you install the 64 bit version of Ubuntu 6.06?
> > 
> > 
Hi,
In my experience, this does not matter to much. I installed both
32 and 64bit versions on a comparable AMD 64 (this one was with
1GB of Ram) and could not find any noticalble speed differences.

To begin with some sort of baseline, I would suggest to see
whether your harddisk ppssibly does not runn at it's speed.

Try 'sudo hdparm -cd /dev/hda' Assuming that you only have one
ide disk. Should you have sata, it might be 'dev/sda' instead.

This asks for 32bit i/o and dma settings, you will find more
information with 'hdparm --help' or 'man hdparm' respectively.

The output should look at least look  somehow similar to this:

eroloff at grey:~$ sudo hdparm -cd /dev/hda
Password:*********

/dev/hda:
 IO_support   =  1 (32-bit)
 using_dma    =  1 (on)


hth
Eberhard