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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Slow boot: Why?
Im using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
I have a slow boot process. Specially since I log in until I can start actually using my Desktop (about 30-40 seconds). I have taken a look at the System Log Viewer, but im ...
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System very Slow, Trying to find the bottleneck
I have Ubuntu 12.10 installed in Sony VIAO E Series VPCEH16EN, 4GB RAM, 320 GB HDD, Intel Core i3-2310M Processor 2.10GHz. It is a dual boot with Windows7 alongside with it.
I see the system is very ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 - really slow performance [duplicate]
I'm very new to Linux/Ubuntu - just installed it on my PC today for the first time ever. It seemed like a great alternative to Windows 8 which annoys me. Unfortunately, even though the installation ...
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Unity dash terribly slow [duplicate]
Unity dash is very slow for me, and completely useless.
It needs more then 5 seconds to open, and after that I cant type smoothly.
It used to work better before, but probably broke with some ...
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High IO load with Dropbox (jbd2 on top of iotop)
I have Ubuntu 12.04 with Dropbox installed. Sometimes, when files are downloading (we have a huge shared Dropbox share), I get very high disk activity (HDD led almost continuously bright, with easy to ...
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How can I save my laptops battery from draining? [duplicate]
I am using ubuntu 12.04 (switched from windows 8 recently) and I am finding that this OS is draining my laptops battery like anything (works only like 70% of windows).
I also found this interesting ...
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Boot: “sleeps” for 4 seconds [closed]
When booting Raring, I noticed that the system "sleeps" for about 4 seconds after USB stuff and before mounting the disks.
What is happening here? How can I get rid of it? This "sleep" makes up 20% of ...
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Laptop performance [closed]
I have a question lads and ladies, first ever after so many years of reading.
How come that between 2 laptops the one with better specs is 50% slower than the other one?
The better is Dell Inspiron ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 is sluggish
I have a Lenovo G580 (4GB DDR3, ~500 GB HDD, Intel i3). I installed Ubuntu using the in-Windows installer on my Windows 7. Ubuntu was (and still is) slightly sluggish.
By sluggish I mean, the OS GUI ...
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CPU performance decreases with AC power
I am doing CPU-intensive work on my Thinkpad X220 laptop and I find the performance bad. Interestingly, the CPU becomes more powerful if I disconnect the AC power and run only on battery! It does slow ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 on Asus Q200E is super slow, how to improve?
The primary symptom is that apps frequently freeze up, graying out. I've read that the gray is a visual signal from compiz for apps that have become unresponsive.
It happens so often that the ...
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Can someone tell me how to get better network speed?
I am moving from Win7 to Ubuntu. I feel my internet is very slow in Ubuntu: all sites open very slowly or not at all. But my net speed is fine in Windows.
I have my broadband connection add as DSL.
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Very low rate of data transfer to USB
I expect to get 3Mb/s to 5Mb/s when copying data to an external USB drive. But these days, whenever I try copying files to my USB flash drive, the transfer rate is dropping down to as low as ...
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Fglrx 13.1 weird performance behaviour
Recently I installed Ubuntu 12.04.1 on my laptop with an ATI Radeon HD 5450.
The open-source drivers perform well for the desktop environment, but not so with games. I just switched because I thought ...
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Assign more than 1 CPU/core to a process
I lost the password to open a PDF file I need to access, so I installed pdfcrack with the hope to recover my password. Actually it's one month that pdfcrack is running but I still am waiting for the ...
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Ubuntu runs terribly slow on my desktop [duplicate]
I have a Ubuntu 12.10 partition on my secondary SSD, while the bootloader and windows 7 partition are one another SSD. My desktop is a gaming rig running an Intel i5 3570k, ati Radeon HD 7870 OC, 8gb ...
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Will running Cinnamon on 12.04 slow down ubuntu? [duplicate]
I really like the Cinnamon interface ( already know how to get cinnamon on Ubuntu) Just need to know if it will slow down my computer. I use Unity on 12.04 Ubuntu
As requested here are my computer ...
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netbook slow on ubuntu (and win 7). Tips and tricks for speeding up
My computer just broke down so I got a new one on second hand because I need one in the mean time while it's on repair. I got a 10" Dell Inspiron mini 1012.
However, it's slow. Really slow. Usually ...
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How do I limit Dropbox's activity on the hard disk?
On startup, Dropbox runs files indexing, which brings the system pretty much to a stand still for three minutes.
Is there a way to restrict Dropbox from accessing the hard disk, or decrease the ...
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Performance tuning/diagnotics help needed… (12.04LTS 64bit, LVM, & LUKS)
I just performed a fresh install of 12.04LTS 64-bit, using the alternate CD, with LVM and LUKS. Install went fine but I've noticed a few quirks and was hoping for some pointers/suggestions from the ...
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Why did my video performance decresase recently?
I've been running ubuntu 12.04 for the last month without any problem, just yesterday a problem with the video performance came up.
I'm using compiz (always used it) but now, everything is slower and ...
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Does enabling ACLs have an effect on performance?
I'm looking at a web application that needs ACLs enabled. Are there any benchmarks or other documents to show what potential impact ACL does{n't} have when the file system is under heavy load?
Also, ...
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How do I prevent my system of freezing up completely? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What should I do when Ubuntu freezes?
Sometimes if I write some poor code in almost any language or IDE and decide to run it, some memory leakage freeze my system so I ...
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Running Ubuntu on a USB flash drive [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Running Ubuntu from a USB Flash drive on Acer
I have a tablet (Samsung Slate) that has Windows 8 on it and not enough space to dual-boot Windows and Ubuntu, so I decided ...
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Poor wireless performance for RT3592
I have a Probook 4530s with a newly installed RT3592BC8 running Ubuntu 12.10 x64.
I upgraded from Atheros 9285 because of it's lack of dual-band and BT 4.0.
The main problem I have with my new ...
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Improve Ubuntu 12.10 performance on VM
I am using Ubuntu 12.10 on a virtual machine in Win7. It is really slow and I wanted to ask what can I do to improve it. I have set 2GB RAM(from 4GB on physical machine) and 16GB hard disk for the ...
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Ext4 vs Mounted Windows NTFS for HDD Data Storage
My system has an SSD (120 gb) and HDD (3 tb).
I am dual-booting Ubuntu 12.10 and Windows 8. Right now I only have 30 gb allocated to Ubuntu on the SSD. The rest of the SSD and HDD drive is used by ...
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2 GB Ram, but Ubuntu runs slowly and hangs if doing too much
I think my system more than meets the minimum/recommended requirements for Ubuntu, but its still running slowly. Especially when I try to multitask by having 4-6 windows open, then it becomes quite ...
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Ask for Old & New Hardware & Improve performance & Upgrades [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I find out which version and derivate of Ubuntu is right for my hardware in terms of minimal system requirements?
Is Ubuntu latest version designed only for new ...
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Slow SSD + dm-crypt with Luks encryption in Ubuntu 12.10
I have an 128 GB SSD installed in my laptop (Samsung 840 Pro) on a Sata 3 interface. This laptop also has an i5 3210m Ivy Bridge Intel processor and 8 GB of RAM.
I installed Ubuntu 12.10, using the ...
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Measure FPS of the game
I'd like to find analogue of Fraps or any other fps counter on Ubuntu 12.10.
After some googling I found 2 solutions:
1) To use Mumble (I found it from this discussion). This solution didn't work ...
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Why is my Intel SSD 520 so slow?
I'm running a fresh installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with ext4 on a SSD 520 by Intel. My mainboard is an ASUS Crosshair (latest BIOS 1207) with a Sil 3132 SATA Controller which claims to support SATAII. I ...
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Can Ubuntu run on Intel's NUC devices?
I was wondering if anyone has experience running Ubuntu (or any other Linux) on Intel's NUC computers?
I was not able to find any reports on linux running on this device, only windows 7/8.
Thanks!
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Handling a very large number of network interface aliases
I have what is probably a bit of an unusual problem. I'm developing a network stress testing tool for internal use, and one of the things I need is to simulate a lot of entities each with their own IP ...
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Ubuntu EXTREMELY slow on MacMini
So I have an older MacMini. It's not the world's greatest machine, but it doesn't suck that badly:
Intel® Core™2 CPU T5600 @ 1.83GHz × 2, 1gig ram
I have installed Ubuntu on MUCH weaker machines ...
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Why is CPU usage higher in Windows 7 after installing Ubuntu 12.04 via windows installer?
For normal usage, CPU consumption is above 80% for windows 7. This happened only after installing Ubuntu 12.04 via windows installer.
Why is it so?
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How safe to move some system folders into ram?
Here is my pc specs
Based on this tutorial I made following changeds to fstab
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0
tmpfs /var/tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0
tmpfs /var/log ...
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Unity really slow on Radeon 6950
I was wondering if anyone could tell me what I need to do/if my system should be able to run Ubuntu 12.10 smoothly.
Asus sabertooth x58,
i7 3.2Ghz,
12 GB 1600 DDR3,
x2 HD Radeon 6950 2GB,
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Slow Samsung 830 SSD!
I did a fresh install of Xubuntu 12.04.1, ext4 with discard option & swappiness set to 0, mounting temp directory in RAM, (8GB.)
I found performance was not stellar, in fact, marginally better ...
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Low performance in Ubuntu 12.10: is there a problem?
I have the following specifications:
Memory: 3 Gb
Processor: Intel® Core™2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz × 4 (32 bit)
Available disk space: 271 gib
Kernel Linux 3.5.0-17-generic
GNOME 3.6.0
I'm ...
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What programs can I use to improve network performance? [closed]
What programs are available to see the performance of my pc? My internet seems to be loading very slow and I have a business internet connection. I ran the command lshw -C network and this is what I ...
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Is there a performance difference between running .NET applications via Mono and running them via the .NET framework on WINE?
I've been using WINE coupled with .NET for ages to run .NET applications, but I recently found out about Mono, a cross-platform, open source version of the .NET framework.
I was wondering: since ...
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Just installed Ubuntu from the Windows Ubuntu installer, but it's running very slow [closed]
Ubuntu is very slow on my machine (Intel Atom). It's slower than Windows, which leads me to believe something is wrong. I tried installing dropbox on it a few days ago and it took about an hour to ...
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Optimizing Unity 3D launcher
I had been using Synapse and Docky for launching application and finding files.
I really love unity but I am seriously facing problem when I want it to appear quickly and search quickly application ...
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Increase KDE performance creating a file
I have read this on a forum from an user:
cit:
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Another thing I just read in the Arch Wiki on KDE, create the following dir:
mkdir -p ~/.compose-cache
It should also give you a performance ...
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What distro of ubuntu to choose when I focus on performance? kubuntu? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Lighter in CPU/Memory Usage: Lubuntu or Xubuntu
I do have an old laptop. it has 512mb of ram and weak processor. I would like to use it only for internet(www and email). ...
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Is the Disk Image Installation Efficient Enough?
I was just wondering, is it efficient to have the entire Ubuntu file system on a Windows file.
Currently I am using the option to directly boot from Ubuntu, as opposed to running it as an application ...
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Slow loading of pages (browser performance)
I have Ubuntu 12.10 installed. I notice for certain webpages, firefox and chrome both load them very slowly. In fact, while text content loads quickly, both of the browsers seem to be loading ...
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ubuntu 12.10 runs slow [closed]
hello i just installed ubuntu 64 bit system (it runs really really slow) and once in a while it crashes to the log screen and i am not sure what to do.
my cpu is a amd phenom ii 6x 1100t ,the ...
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Ubuntu slow after 15 minutes of use?
It has come to my attention recently that after 15 minutes of use, Ubuntu becomes slowly more and more unusable. For example, moving the mouse will make it lag or opening a new Chrome tab will lag. I ...
