Seeking Help

[geoff at thebakershome.net]

>>- Computer has 32 GB of ram and an Intel i7 3770 CPU.
>> Primary HDD is a Samsung 840 Pro (SSD)
>
> Might want to see where the bottleneck is.
>
> Which ram do you have? Brand and model number. How many modules? If you
> have
> two dimms, which slots are they in? What speed is the ram running?

Four dimms, each one is 8 GB, 1333 MHz, Corsair

>
> Run memtest86+ and see what bandwidth is reported for the cpu caches and
> the
> main ram. (in MB/s) Let the test run a couple of passes at least to see if
> the ram is defective.
>
> For the drives, boot Ubuntu Live and use the Disk Utility to read the
> drive's health according to SMART, and run the 'read only' Benchmark on
> each
> drive. That SSD drive should nice speeds.
>

I will get this information right away. Preparing a paste bin with other
information first.

> When you install Ubuntu, do you specify a partition layout manually, or
> just
> let Ubuntu format the boot drive as it likes?

I did it manually. I let the SSD be configured by default as /
One Platter ( 1 TB) as /home/ and this drive has the swap partition

>
> Do you automatically install packages that you've used for years, or is it
> a
> pristine install?

Pristine install, though I have since started to add more packages, but
this happened from the start

>
> Do you change bios settings from the defaults for anything? If so, load
> optimized or safe defaults and try.

I have set it to optimized defaults, but it does not help

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