computer runing slow

[Eberhard Roloff]

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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