jaunty slow on laptop

[NoOp]

On 08/11/2009 09:59 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> Just installed Jaunty on my Dell Latitude (1.8 GB Pentium, 1 GB RAM) and 
> can't believe how slow it is. 3-5 second delay between clicking to 
> expand xterm and when it expands, 2 second delay when using the up or 
> down arrows to scroll, Mutt so slow responding to commands that at times 
> I think it's frozen and have to bail out, even Alpine has a noticeable 
> hesitation. Scrolling with the mouse wheel or the scroll bar is jerky 
> and skips with the previously mentioned delay. Has anyone else 
> experienced this or is the Holtzman Luck rearing it's head again?
> 

Jaunty should zip right along on that system. I have an 800Mhz/384MB IBM
A21M Thinkpad & it's acceptable on that machine.
  My guess? If you check using top or System monitor I'll be that
tracker is doing it's initial indexing & is using all of the cpu & hard
drive cycles. Or you've got some interface/application hung in a loop.
Either way you'll need to look using the usual tools:

- top
- system monitor
- dmesg
- syslog

etc.