sluggish performance Jaunty

[Gary Kirkpatrick]

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:21 PM, H.S. <hs.samix at gmail.com> wrote:

> Gary Kirkpatrick wrote:
> >
> > The command > df -h does not work.  When I open home folder it says I
> have 6
>
> This is odd. I have never had to install anything special to use the df
> command (there is ">" with the command). The reason I asked is that if a
> partition being in Ubuntu is more than 95% full, the system will feel
> sluggish and slow down.
>
>
> > gigs free space.  I do not have any special effects enabled.  Under
> > "Appearances," I checked 'normal.'
>
> Okay. Special effects might be too much for this system.
>
> >
> > 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.
>
> When you system is running, what is the output of this command:
> $> free -m
>
> It will show the memory (RAM) usage in your system.
>
>
> >
> > 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.
>
> I saw another post here, I think you need the statically compiled skype
> (oss) from medibuntu repos to get around this problem.
>
> Regards.
>
>
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I could not get > free -m to work either.  I copied it into terminal.  Does
not require sudo does it?

$ > free -m
bash: -m: command not found

Am I missing something from the operating system?

I think I  remember seeing something on skype re:P medibuntu.

Gary
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