[GRLUG] Ubuntu Laptop Still Slow

[Jorge La]

Hey! openSuSE 10.3 64 bit works great! :)
it's actully REALLY fast.

*shrugs*
Looks like i'm gonna use SuSE now.

On Dec 8, 2007 6:39 PM, Jorge La <weeneedhelp at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 distros that i had on hand earlier today-they're all pretty out of date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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