jaunty slow on laptop

[Robert Holtzman]

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 08:06:22AM -0700, NoOp wrote:
> 
> 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.

Didn't try system monitor or top because tracker's indexing never dawned
on me. Did check dmesg and syslog however with no results.

Decided to load Hardy as a trial, and it does fly. Just like Jaunty
should.

I'll probably give Jaunty another shot and see what I can find.

Thanks for the reply.

-- 
Bob Holtzman
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