[GRLUG] Ubuntu Laptop Still Slow

[Steve Romanow]

Michael Mol wrote:
> Something must be broken with your scheduler.  Have you updated your system yet?
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> On 12/7/07, Jorge La <weeneedhelp at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> WOW, I think I'm going crazy. Because these % on top dont seem possible.
>> Sometimes top is at 50%, Xorg is always at about 50% or higher, and when I
>> run Gnome System monitor, it runs at 82%.
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>> I miss my 300mhz celeron laptop with 256 RAM. It ran linux so nice. :(
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>> On Dec 7, 2007 9:39 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> And when you run top, nothing is pegged at the top of the list?
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>>> On 12/7/07, Jorge La <weeneedhelp at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> If you weren't at the meeting earlier this week, you missed out. I
>>>>         
>> brought
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>>>> my new Laptop with an Athlon 64 x2  with 1gb RAM running Ubuntu 64bit.
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>> It
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>>>> ran-more like walked-frick'n slow. The advice to me was to put 32bit
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>> Ubuntu
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>>>> on it. I did as told, and it now runs somewhat slow.
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>>>> the CPU is still stuck on 100% at 1.8ghz even when I'm doing nothing and
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>> top
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>>>> says the thing doing the most processing is top itself.
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>>>> anymore help?
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have you tried hdparm -tT to see if your getting good disk throughput?

I had an amd athlon 64 in an averatec that was always underwelming.  i 
ended up going off on it like the trailing scene of Office Space.   "PC 
LOAD LETTER..."