Questions about improving the performance/speed of Ubuntu. Note that this is a general tag, and should be accompanied by another tag indicating what kind of performance you are referring to.
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System periodically stalls for less then 1s then resumes normally
Periodically my system stalls for a short while (less then 1s). When it occurs, the mouse pointer hangs or stutters and my keyboard input doesn't show up on the screen. After it's done, the keyboard ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 Running very slow
I just installed Ubuntu 13.04 64. The HD was clean and nothing was on it when I did the install. I have Windows 7 installed on another drive and it runs smooth. The problem I'm having is it is ...
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architecture-independent performance monitor tool
I got to know "perf" tool in "linux-tools-3.2.0-43" for Ubuntu 12.04 which can monitor the performance counts for some micro-architectures, however, the tool is dependent to the cpu architecture and ...
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Recommended testing tools to test MySQL performance?
What is the recommended tool(s) for testing the performance of MySQL 5.5 (innodb) under Ubuntu 12.04?
We have purchased a new multi-cpu multi-core server to replace our current MySQL dual-core ...
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Advantages of alternative kernel
Recently I have seen an WebUpd8 article about an alternative kenrel to the stock Ubuntu kernel, the pf-kernel, that supposed increases performance. I am running Ubuntu 12.10 using kernel 3.5.0-30 ...
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13.04 sluggish after installation, live-cd was fast
I just installed a fresh 13.04 on my macbook, but after the installation it's a bit sluggish. Several problems occur:
In chromium and firefox, on google.com, the autocomplete search bar lags. ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 CPU frequency scaling 'stuck' on lowest frequency
I've just installed Ubuntu 13.04 on my MacBook Air, after toying around for awhile the machine felt really slow, so I checked out the CPU frequency. cpufreq-info, it reports 800MHz on all 4 cores ...
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The most optimal operating system to host virtual machines
I have a laptop Toshiba Satellite A505 with following features:
Intel Core i3 processor
8kB L1 cache, 64 kb L2 cache, 256kB L3 cache
4 GB RAM
500 GB HDD
I have used many operating systems on it. ...
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What are relevant disk benchmark settings for a desktop system [duplicate]
NOTE: This is not a question about which tools to use to fine tune disks.
I am about to replace an HD with an SSD and also to fine tune some of the disk settings. Also, I might distribute my ...
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Troubleshooting poor performance with ATI HD 5800 GPU
I am attempting again to solve problems between ATI Radeon HD 5800 series (5830) GPU and Ubuntu. Three months ago I posted:
Display difficulties with Ubuntu 12.10, Dual Monitors, and ATI HD 5800
I ...
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Optimize Ubuntu 13.04 for netbook (Dell Mini 10v)
I have some slight glitches running Ubuntu 13.04 in my old beloved Dell Mini 10v. How can I optimize the graphics for it?
It has got 1Gb of RAM and an N270 Atom processor. Very minimal graphics too.
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How to disable Ubuntu 13.04 Unity fancy visual effects?
Unity works very fast but pretty unstable on my PC (with Intel GMA X4500HD video card). For example the Ubuntu purple-black splash screen is stuck as the desktop background (changing it in the ...
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Slow performance after installing Ubuntu over Windows XP
I installed Ubuntu over Windows XP and then the Ubuntu started to work very slowly. The performance is not to the standard. What should I do to remove the initial Windows and to make Ubuntu as a ...
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Ubuntu running slow on my good machine!
Its fixed now :)
I just installed Ubuntu on my PC. I lag a lot. My pc runs all other OS' at high speed, but ubuntu lags like hell. It worked on my old laptop.
My Specs:
XFX AMD Radeon HD 7870 ...
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Poor performance for VMWare workstation 8.0 with Ubuntu 12.04 on ThinkPad w530
I am having ThinkPad w530 with 16 MB RAM and it has intel core i7 processor. I just installed VMWare Workstation 8.0 and I created a Virtual machine for Windows 7.0.
The performance of the virtual ...
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Slow and freezy 13.04 system under Nvidia graphic
I have the same problem under 13.04, I have Nvidia C73 (GeForce7100/nForce 630i) and it freezes randomly when I use Unity icons, the system is pretty slow anyway. I tried the opensource x-org driver, ...
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Is it seriously not possible to use both SLI and two monitors at the same time on Ubuntu with Nvidia?
Now that Ubuntu is slowly becoming a viable gaming platform.
Now that Valve gave Nvidia and AMD enough of a push to actually improve their proprietary drivers ...
... I'm completely and utterly ...
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How to diagnose/fix TF2 performance issues, despite good FPS?
I'm running Ubuntu 13.04 with an AMD 6630M and the AMD 13.4 drivers. I run Team Fortress on Windows on the same machine, and despite getting 30-40 fps, the game is quite playable, very smooth and ...
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How to Limit the CPU usage for a process and its Children wether there is another process demands resources or not
i was wondering about something like CPUlimit to limit the process CPU usage but i am aiming to apply the same percentage of usage for its children processes too automatically without adding them ...
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Reduced performance in bumblebee after 3.0 to 3.2 update
I had installed bumblebee 3.0 for my nVidia geforce 635M card in ubuntu 12.10 and got instant results - temp ad fan speeds reduced, batt backup extended to almost 6 hrs. (from 1.5-2 hrs earlier) and ...
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Performance issue with UBUNTU
Hello I have installed Ubuntu on an OCZ SSD 240GB because I wanted lightning performance and excellent response times. This is the case when I log in everything is great. After a while of using though ...
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Performance problems with 13.04 and virtualbox
I just installed Ubuntu 13.04 (daily, full updated) and installed Windows 8 in virtualbox.
When Windows 8 is running a have huge performance issues on Ubuntu. Last week I had the same setup with ...
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Ubuntu is slow despite good hardware
I've read previous threads with mentions of ubuntu running slowly but they usually refer to Intel Celeron procs with 1 GB RAM or things like that.
I actually have a dual core AMD processor (I will ...
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Please help me speedup my Ubuntu 12
top - 08:28:09 up 12:59, 2 users, load average: 0.59, 0.47, 0.35
Tasks: 200 total, 1 running, 199 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 7.1%us, 2.7%sy, 0.0%ni, 88.1%id, 2.0%wa, 0.0%hi, ...
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GeForce 8600M GT: Nouveau performance better than proprietary driver?
After installing Ubuntu 12.10 on this computer, I installed NVIDIA's proprietary driver, since I might want to play a few games. I soon started having problems with video and audio. I'd be watching a ...
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Is the gaming performane gonna be improved? [duplicate]
Is the gaming performane gonna be improved in the new version 13.04?
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Occasional latency spike between two servers
4 servers on a private network which all talk to each other using dedicated 1gbps network adapters. When I mtr from one to another, out of 100 requests, I'll get 98 that are 0.2ms or 0.3ms, 1 which is ...
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Performance Problems with Ubuntu Games [duplicate]
Although I have a good computer, I often have performance problems with Ubuntu. Even games like Tetris are slow and games that are more costly often crash. Then nothing works any more, the PC does not ...
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Many games stuttery - nvidia
Many games I play are stuttery, (run at a fine fps, but pause randomly every second or so). This happens both when running a native game such as Amnesia, and a game through wine like LoL or WoW. ...
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Is there a user-friendly setup to reduce performance and fan thresholds?
My Dell Vostro 4450 with Ubuntu 12.04 started heating (>95°C) when its on heavy load and charging battery (sometimes it freezes in this conditions). When on heavy load but using battery, it stabilize ...
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Mysql very slow on (fast) development laptop
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Ubuntu 12.10 x64 new i7 laptop, mysql default installation.
Importing a 6 MB dump file (a empty drupal dump made mostly of INSERT INTO statements) takes ~30 minutes, on other PC takes less ...
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Ubuntu performance is not good with my Acer laptop
I have Acer Aspire 5741 (4GB RAM, Core i5, 500GB HDD, Intel HD Graphics)
I use Ubuntu 64bit 12.04, before it i used 11.10. Also i have tested 12.10. I have same problem and it is not about OS version. ...
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defragmenting and increasing performance of old lubuntu system with swap partition
I am using the latest lubuntu on a celeron 1.7ghz and 512 MB ram, lately the performance of the system has been deteriorated significantly.
The hard didsk is 80gb IDE drive. And we suspect it to be ...
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How to monitor disk activity?
How do I view my Disk Activity on Ubuntu? For example, How can I monitor what is being written and read from disk as well as the percentage of disk usage?
I am looking for an application similar to ...
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What alternatives to Nautilus exist which are more responsive? [duplicate]
I like Nautilus, but it suffers from lag when navigating between folders. I estimate the delay at somewhere between 300ms-800ms. Not much, but enough to notice and feel sluggish compared to Windows ...
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SSD tweaks for Ubuntu 12.04 cause Texmaker to compile a lot slower
I added these tweaks from Ubuntu SSD Tweak and Ubuntu Tweaks but now Texmaker is compiling slowly. Does someone know what tweak would be causing this? Or could I edit something unrelated to the ...
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What format is used in the LXC config file to specify control group settings?
I want to limit the CPU shares of available to two LXC containers running.
It appears that this is done by adding the control group definitions into the LXC config file.
But what's the format? The ...
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How to run Ubuntu without GUI in Virtual Box?
I have a Windows XP laptop, in which I run VirtualBox with the latest Ubuntu, my hardware is little old, so running the latest version of Ubuntu inside Virtual box is kind of a hassle, very slow ...
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Show files being accessed most in a short time period
So I've got a server that's struggling under the weight of several Wordpress installs. Things are relatively well cached (I am planning to improve things anyway) but I can quickly see that disk IO is ...
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Unity Dash extremely laggy
I'm running 12.04 64bit. I've been running gnome shell for a while and decided to give Unity a try. I logged out and back in with the Unity Shell selected.
I noticed that, sometimes when I press the ...
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Hard drive performance in 12.10
I've just had some surprising results when running hard drive performance tests in Ubuntu 12.10 vs Linux Mint Debian Edition, which I'm dual-booting on the same machine (and the same hard drive).
I ...
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12.04 running slow on my machine
Hi I'm very new to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and having installed it on albeit an old laptop I have found it to be very slow. I have a feeling this is more likely to do with my hardware but I'd appreciate any ...
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Will Ubuntu 12.10 or 12.04 Run Very Smoothly on My Computer Or Should I Go With Lubuntu?
I have a somewhat old computer with mid-range hardware.
Here's what my computer has:
1.8 Ghz Willamette Pentium 4 256 Kb L2 Cache
nVidia Geforce 6200 LE 256 mB DDR2
1024 mB DDR at 133 mhz
40 GB HD ...
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Ubunut 12.10 64 bit using 100% CPU
Configuration
Ubuntu 12.10(64 bit)
i3 Processor
Ruby 1.9.3
Java openjdk(6 or 7)
Any ruby or java command using 100% CPU. It works perfectly fine with ubuntu 10 or 11 (32 bit).
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How to check the speed/problems of network-manager?
in between suspend and awake my system of course drops its wlan connection. Then once awakend from its suspend notwork-manager tries to reestablish the connection. All works fine , I think
BUT: doing ...
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ubuntu 12.10 64-bit consuming 100% cpu power and high battery
I am new linux user, installed ubuntu 12.10 (64-bit) from wubi (getting boot option (windows7/ubuntu).
But after opening ubuntu, laptop gets heat up, fan running very fast and performance is very ...
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AMD Athlon II x2 270 performance
I want to buy a new PC. I want to know how does this CPU works fine on Ubuntu.
It's an AMD Athlon II x2 270.
I'm not asking for a review. I just want to know if it works fine on Ubuntu, because I've ...
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Format partition to what block size for photos only
I have a lot of photos and am working on them extensively, mainly going quickly through them back and forth via a Photo Browser and also doing some work via scripts.
Would that make sense to format ...
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Mir the X Server replacement [closed]
I read much about the X Server replacement Mir, but I am not quite sure which benefits it will have. Ok it is a newer technologie, the currently used X server uses code that is twenty years old or ...
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Several Questions regarding software on Ubuntu 12.10
So, i recently installed Ubuntu 12.10 but i have problems setting up my microphone, i got a creative sound-card and i already tried ALSA.
Second i need to have adobe cs 5.5 installed for studying but ...
