sluggish performance Jaunty

[Gary Kirkpatrick]

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:51 AM, H.S. <hs.samix at gmail.com> wrote:

> Gary Kirkpatrick wrote:
> > Since I installed Intrepid and now continuing with Jaunty, I find my Dell
> > 600 m to be performing rather sluggisly.  For example, Open Office goes
> into
> > slow mo loading, and also opening files, specifically when you click to
> open
> > a file, the OO screen darkens and about a minute later returns to normal
> and
> > then lists files.  Same problem with GIMP.  In FF, if you click to attach
> a
> > file in yahoo or google, same problem.
> >
> >
> > The 600 m has an ati 9200 video card.  I have about 5 gigs space on the
> > ubuntu portion of the disk.  The machine has 375 megs of memory, 1.4 m
>
> What is the free disk space you have on your Ubuntu partitions? Paste
> the output of the following command here:
> $> df -h
>
>
> > processor.  Sometimes gnome takes 40% of the CPU's processing capacity.
> > Mostly it sits around 10-12.  Temperature usually stays around 50C,
> > sometimes 60C.
> >
> > I ran the computer janitor without any effect on this problem.
> >
> > Hardy did not have this problem.  Generally worked much quicker.
>
> Do you have special effects enabled? Boot time surely should be shorter
> than in Hardy.
>
> BTW, I am not sure you get a spiffy fast gnome desktop on Jaunty with
> 375 MB of RAM.
>
>
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The command > df -h does not work.  When I open home folder it says I have 6
gigs free space.  I do not have any special effects enabled.  Under
"Appearances," I checked 'normal.'

I realize these days 375 megs of ram is not a lot.  I'd rather go back to
hardy than spend money on a machine that's over 5 yrs old.

Otherwise jaunty seems to work well, except with skype; I'd switch to
another if I could.  Skype sometimes grabs 70% of the CPU when FF is
running, then won't shut down.

Thanks

gary
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