computer runing slow
Eberhard Roloff
tuxebi at gmx.de
Thu Aug 3 16:20:41 UTC 2006
On Thu, 3 Aug 2006 18:15:56 +0200
Eberhard Roloff <tuxebi at gmx.de> wrote:
> 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)
sorry, it should read:
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 under "normal conditions, i.e. running graphical
> apps like Browser, Mail, Office, Gimp.....
>
>
> hth
> Eberhard
>
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