Re: Ubuntu 11.10 performance

On 3 January 2012 07:50, Carsten Agger <agger@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I can attest that the problem with Ubuntu One is not just you - I get
that too. I just removed it. I use Dropbox instead.

I have not seem the rest, though. But yes, as Ubuntu grows, it is indeed
getting slower.


Thanks for your response.

I am sorry that it was not more informative!

Yesterday, I installed Xubuntu and started using it instead of Unity, and
that improved the situation somewhat.

Yes, I can believe that!

There is still a problem, though, and Evolution and Firefox still take
unreasonably long time to launch. But it's clearly better with Xubuntu.

Still, I suspect the problem is probably kernel-related, i.e. bad support
for my hardware configuration. I still think that ordinary desktop
performance should never be a problem with a quad core CPU and 4 GB RAM.

I agree.

Questions:
* Are you using a 32-bit or 64-bit install?
* Was this a clean install or an upgrade?

I suggest doing a clean install on a temp root partition. If your home
directory tree is on the same partition as root, I'd suggest moving it
to a separate one, then you can share it between multiple installs,
which makes testing /much/ easier.

With 4GB of RAM, I'd also suggest running 64-bit. Yes, PAE will let
you access it all, but in a slightly constrained way.

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