Old pc faster than recent

[sebastien]

Thanks everyone !
What a disappointment to have a 1 year old laptop
slower than an old 7 years old desktop... That reminds me : At which
point does the society of consumption does really benefit us ? ? Sure
those 2 products are different, but 7 years is a lot for computers...

note : on the laptop, W2K is pretty much faster than ubuntu 6.10 for
the same kind of applications (I cannot compare to my desktop- it
only runs ubuntu, so grrrrrrrreat I must say). 

Regarding the problem and to answer to your questions :

Yes, DMA was activated. 

Number of services on the laptop running 6.10 : that's a fact : a very
high amount of services is listed : a  majority is checked (14 daemons),
and some not. Which ones can I safely deactivate to improve ?

buscom sys (checked)
klogd (checked)
syslogd (checked)
britty (unchecked)
acpid (checked)
apmd (checked) 
bluetooth (unchecked)
alsa-utils (unchecked)
hotkey-set (checked)
gdm (checked)
powernowd (checked) 
rpc portmap (unchecked)
screen (unchecked)
hdparm (unchecked)
anacron (unchecked)
nfs-kernel-server (checked)
samba (checked)
DNS avahi-daemon (checked)
cupsys (checked)
hplip (checked)
festival (unchecked)
bug apport (checked)

On my LTS desktop (all services are checked) : 8 services only.

klogd
sysklogd
gdm
mysql
apache2
samba
nfs server
cupsys

I shall try XFCE on the laptop, in order to get a faster ubuntu, if
disabling more daemons do not enhance the performance.

On my desktop, Ive noticed that the LTS version is now faster than the
last version 5.10 was.

sc

 On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:36:07 -0800
petevg at gmail.com wrote:

> On 12/14/06, sebastien <scamot2004 at gmx.at> wrote:
> > I wonder why ubuntu 6.10 uses Swap memory, on this laptop
> > while no application is running ? And is it slow because it uses
> > this swap memory ?
> 
> Celeron processors are really watered down compared to Pentiums, and
> the laptop has less RAM, further reducing its probable performance
> relative to the desktop.
> 
> As for the swap used ... the laptop's probably running battery
> management software and the like in the background -- that might be
> where the stuff dumped to swap is coming from.
>