sluggish performance Jaunty

[Gary Kirkpatrick]

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Steve <yorvik.ubunto at googlemail.com> wrote:

> 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?
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> Steve <Yorvik.Ubunto at GoogleMail.com>
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 2.6.27-11 generic is what I use to boot.  Seems to work better than
2.6.28-11.  However scaling does not work when  I try to install it having
booted from the former.  In the latter the usage would vary from .4 to 1.4
as I recall.

gary
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