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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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 ...
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slow(er) HDD performance
When watching a movie (simple avi) and my torrent client (transmission) runs simultaneously, the movie slows down. I think this is a HDD performance issue. It does not exist on windows 7/8 (same ...
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Is there a simple way to diagnose Unity performance issues?
The Unity Dash and HUD are slow to open, sometimes freezing the system for up to four seconds when I first hit the Alt or Super keys. Is there a simple way to find out where the time is going?
The ...
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Downloads killing internet on my home network
I am currently having a problem with my wireless. Whenever I try to download anything it kills the internet for every other application(tabs within the same browser, browsers on other computers on the ...
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What does this fix for non-responsive mouse and keyboard do?
I'm using Ubuntu 12.10 and found that after about 20 minutes of work that my mouse and keyboard became very unresponsive. So I found the following fix (logging in as root - careful!!!):
sudo -i
To ...
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Poor perfomance in Gnome Shell [closed]
I'm using Ubuntu GNOME Remix 12.10, and I often experience performance issues. Every now and again, the framerate drops significantly, and doing something as simple as dragging or minimizing a window ...
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Cat 6 Only 100mbit speed
I tried two different cat6 cables directly connected between my two ubuntu machines. This one I ordered online:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B002SQPDXS/ref=wms_ohs_product
only achieves 100mbit ...
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Ubuntu samba file and print server
I am using an old Dell desktop PC as a samba file and print server for a Windows 7 network.
The version of Ubuntu I am running is 12.04 which seems to big for the RAM and disk space I have available. ...
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How do you apply performance tuning settings for Native zfs?
I am currently running an Ubuntu 12.10 Desktop with some zfs pools. I have installed ZFS using the following instructions and from the PPA it contains:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ZFS
I have a ...
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Flash suddenly insanely jerky (but low CPU consumption)
I'm using 11.04 (I know that support has been dropped) 32bit on my Desktop machine.
I never had performance problems with Adobe Flash on Ubuntu. But since today, all flash videos in browsers are ...
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SSD caching (e.g. ASUS P9X79 WS) ‒ possible on Ubuntu?
Some motherboards such as ASUS P9X79 WS support something called “ASUS SSD caching”. You can connect 1 HDD and 1 SSD to 2 designated SATA ports, and IUUC, you can have a setup in which the motherboard ...
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Why gwibber-service keeps poping up even if I deleted Gwibber?
My Ubuntu 12.04 had been getting annoyingly slow during the day..
So I decided to have a terminal running top in one of my monitors at all times. I noticed that gwibber-service - gwibber is a ubuntu ...
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Firefox is pounding my system what should I do
I'm running the latest version of firefox 17.0.1 on ubuntu 12.10 on a Acer Aspire One 722 Netbook. It has an amd dual core C60 processor and 2GB RAM.
As you can see, firefox is absolutely killing ...
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Why is ubuntu running so slowly when installed alongside windows 8?
I recently bought a computer with windows 8 preinstalled on it, and installed Ubuntu 12.04. It ran well at first, but after some time, it started to slow down. This was more noticeable when I was ...
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Xubuntu running incredibly slowly on a relatively sufficient system - How to find the cause?
I recently formatted my hard-disk and installed Xubuntu 12 on my desktop PC, which has the following specifications:
Intel P4 3GHz
1.5GB RAM
80GB Hard-disk
128MB Nvidia Video Card (FX5500)
In ...
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Unable to start netperf server
I am working on Ubuntu 12.10 and I just installed netperf by apt-get install netperf. Then I tried to start netperf server by running netserver and I got Unable to start netserver with 'IN(6)ADDR_ANY' ...
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Performance Counter Information required
I need to learn how performance counter works for my research project. I have understood how hardware supports the monitoring of events.Intel manual gives description on how the performance monitoring ...
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How to benchmark a software's performance
How can I benchmark the performance of a particular software not complete system? I know various tools are available for system benchmarking.
But I want to benchmark the performance of a particular ...
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Minecraft runs really weird in Ubuntu 12.10
When I have Vsync on my framerate is capped to 30 instead of 60. Also, when I go fullscreen the mouse seems to have really fast acceleration and the game looks really jumpy. I could run this on ...
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Running super slow on a beastly system
I've been using Ubuntu for years now and starting about last week I started seeing some problems. Ubuntu has constantly been freezing when I try to open stuff. Or the screen will freeze for about 5-7 ...
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Minecraft High CPU (125%~) using openJava 6/7
if I run Minecraft with OpenJDK 6 or 7 on my Ubuntu 12.04 machine, it eats nearly of the CPU and I have lags during minecraft gameplay.
What I have tried so far:
start minecraft with something like ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 Unity Performance - Dragging a GLXGEARS through the Desktop
I've been using the 12.10 since It was launched.
I have a I7 with a Geforce GT520 running 304.43 driver version.
With 12.04, using a lot of Compiz animation, I could drag a window running glxgears ...
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ubuntu 12.10 running very slow on dell xps m1530
i am new to ubuntu and linux. i have installed 12.10 on my 32bit machine with 4gb's ram and Intel® Core™2 Duo CPU T9300 @ 2.50GHz × 2 processor
takes a couple of seconds to open any application and ...
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Ubuntu 11.10 (through 11.04) freeze when NVIDIA powermizer not set to Maximum Performance
Running ubuntu 11.10 with all the latest updates, latest NVIDIA drivers (304.64 - it has been happening on all drivers for more then a year now though), with an NVIDIA GeForce GT 240.
If I don't set ...
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Does Zeitgeist slow performance considerably
This was talked to me today and I actually did not have a proper answer, so I was wondering if Zeitgeist had any impact in performance. For example if comparing Ubuntu with and without Zeitgeist in ...
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Formating 500giga hard disk
I planning to buy a new labtop 500giga hard-disk no system, And was thinking to setup windows xp on drive C: 50g for windows and 50 for ubuntu file system.
My question should I make one volume for ...
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Is buying a new, recent graphics card a reasonable strategy to resolve graphics related problems? [closed]
The last year, probably longer, I have been dealing with increasing stability issues that seem related to some graphics subsystem and that I can not find a clear solution to.
The problems have gotten ...
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Ubuntu Slow - What architecture does the Windows Installer install?
I feel absolutely limited by using Windows, and I need to switch to a Unix environment.
I once installed Red Hat on my laptop (screen + external monitor setup; 4GB ram; x64) and it worked fine, but I ...
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CPU stuck in energy save mode
A few days ago, my computer started feeling very slow, and looking a CPU usage, I saw that even the simplest processes required a lot of CPU.
As far as I can tell, it's because the core are all ...
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USB write speed irregular
I would like some advice on why this is happening to my USB devices...
I have tried a few USB 2.0 pendrives, FAT32, EXT4, NTFS. All no more than 16 GB big.
Read speeds are fine (25-27MB/s)
Write ...
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Tell the kernel to strongly cache a particular directory
This question is a rephrasing of Optimizing EXT4 performance.
I have a directory that contains build files, most very small, but totaling 5.6G.
I usually access the same subset of files (some ...
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Ubuntu 12 slow on intel ATOM mini-itx board
I had an old Intel Desktop Board D410PT (mini-itx with Atom processor) that I decided to set up with Linux and chose Ubuntu 12.04.
Seems its was a bad idea, because the 32 bit server version did not ...
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Software to track application profile
I am developing a software for number theory investigation, and I am suspicious that is leaking memory.
It would be very nice to log the CPU, and RAM usage of this program through some application. ...
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Can you apply noatime on Ext3 partitions at realtime?
an application accesses a disk directory containing about 3 million files (including directories).
I would like to apply the noatime option for that filesystem and I would like to know whether I can ...
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How do I speed up initial login?
The initial login on my Ubuntu 12.04 machine can take anywhere from 45 seconds to two minutes. If I log out, then log back in again, the login time takes between 4 and 7 seconds.
How can I find out ...
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Ubuntu on Dell Latitude E5520 working slow
I know it's a little vague, but.
I really need your help.
I have Ubuntu 12.10 on Dell Latitude E5520 i5 2410M with 4GB RAM & 500 GB HDD.
With Firefox (16.0.2) it is extremely frustrating to do ...
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What driver for nVIDIA GeForce MX440?
I have recently installed (clean install) Ubuntu 12.10 on a desktop PC with nVIDIA GeForce MX440 (AGP 8x) and I have problems with Unity. Although I can see the desktop, however i can't see unity bar ...
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Why isn't Unredirect Fullscreen Windows enabled by default? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Does ‘Unredirect fullscreen Windows’ option in compiz improve performance for video playback?
I'm a developer and even I had to use Google to find out what is wrong with ...
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Openbox overhead is similar to that with gnome-panel
I just installed openbox via sudo apt-get install openbox. It already has obconf, btw.
I noticed that when I logged into my openbox session instead of the one I usually use (gnome-panel and NOT ...
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How to run applications without desktop environment?
I know that, for example, XBMC can be launched as a single "desktop environment" from the unity greeter. I assume unity is not running, at least not completely, behind XBMC. Is there anyway to do this ...
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Display cuts off launcher, everything's blurry, Hulu choppy, system slower than Vista [closed]
Just installed 12.10 64bit. Display cuts off launcher, every thing's blurry, Hulu choppy, overall the system is slower than Vista.
I'm guessing it's a GPU problem? I have a GeForce 9300M, but the ...
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High powered ubuntu desktop machine running slow
I have a super powered desktop machine running ubuntu version : Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS
The syetem specs are : 12xIntel(R) Xeon(R)CPU W3690 @ 3.47GHz with 12324MB RAM
The machine used to run very nicely ...
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12.10 visual performance using nvidia driver
My fresh ubuntu 12.10 install is slow, not something extreme but dragging windows, switching workspaces and things like that are just slow and look horrible. it feels like the fps is dropping in a ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 running slow
I pasted syslog and perhaps anyone can see trouble that might need attention. It is running too slow for what I would suspect. Opening apps and web pages just takes forever.
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How to run Ubuntu 12.10 on a Laptop with maximum power saving?
I have a Toshiba L500-21T with Intel core I3 M330 2.13GHZ having 4 cores
with Amd Mobility Rdeon 4500 Graphic card, 360Gb HD and 6GB DDR3 RAM.
How can I run my lappy smoothly while giving me ...
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Performance tweaks for 12.10 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I improve overall system performance?
I am running 12.10 on a Two year old Sony Vaio laptop (i7 with 8gb ram and ssd disk)
Overall performance nothing like as ...
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Video capture Performance
I have noticed high CPU utilization in a number of applications (except mplayer) which read from the embedded webcam on my laptop. Bizarrely CPU utilization varies proportionately to the level of ...
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when using fglrx unity does not display and slow moving windows
two issues when using the fglrx driver:
when i move to the propriety fglrx driver, unity does not load the side bar. the login screen loads (with top bar displayed), but when logging in, the unity ...
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Choosing File System for Solid State Drive [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I optimize the OS for SSDs?
I have just bought a Sandisk 120 GB Solid State Drive on which I want to run Ubuntu 12.10 as fast as possible. What's the recommend ...
