sluggish performance Jaunty

[Steve]

On Tue, 5 May 2009 11:38:09 -0500
Gary Kirkpatrick <pegngary at gmail.com> 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
> 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.
> 
> Thanks  for any  suggestions
> 
> gary
> 

As this is a laptop, is the CPU running at full speed?
-- 
Steve <Yorvik.Ubunto at GoogleMail.com>