[GRLUG] Ubuntu Laptop Still Slow

[Jorge La]

I dont have my laptop on hand at the moment, but i'll tell you the info on
the chip later on.

I'm currently leaning on SuSE 10.3, downloading it now. I tried other
distros that i had on hand earlier today-they're all pretty out of date
because they originated before I left for the Army-and none of they worked
any better.

On Dec 8, 2007 11:24 AM, Roberto Villarreal <rvillarreal at mktec.com> wrote:

> On Friday 07 December 2007, Jorge La wrote:
> > If you weren't at the meeting earlier this week, you missed out. I
> > brought my new Laptop with an Athlon 64 x2  with 1gb RAM running
> > Ubuntu 64bit. It ran-more like walked-frick'n slow. The advice to
> > me was to put 32bit Ubuntu on it. I did as told, and it now runs
> > somewhat slow.
> >
> > the CPU is still stuck on 100% at 1.8ghz even when I'm doing
> > nothing and top says the thing doing the most processing is top
> > itself.
> >
> >
> > anymore help?
>
> This is just a stab... but last year I bought a desktop Athlon 64x2
> and had the opposite problem... it was *extremely* fast... never had
> a more responsive computer in my life.  In my case, the downside is
> that my clock was also fast... the clock ran about three times faster
> than it should (i.e. in one "real" minute, three "computer" minutes
> had passed).  After much searching, I found it had to do with
> interrupts... there was something weird about my chipset (it was
> pretty new at the time).
>
> The 'fix' for this was an upgraded kernel and some kernel parameters
> set via grub.  Even if your problem isn't anything to do with
> interrupts, perhaps try a kernel upgrade or downgrade...
>
> Good luck,
> Roberto
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