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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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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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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Hard Drive too slow
My computer has been going too slow since I remember, I tried several tips I found on Internet but nothing worked. After spending some time searching about the problem I found that it might be my hard ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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What flags can I add or are added when loading the kernel to enhance Sandy/Ivy Bridge performance
Are there any flags in Ubuntu 12.04 that I can add or are added already that when loading the kernel it enhances the performance of Sandy or Ivy Bridge hardware?
In my case my motherboard is the ...
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Which is the light one? Openbox or IceWM for ubuntu 12.04 LTS?
Which is the light one? Openbox or IceWM for ubuntu 12.04 LTS? i want to install on Ubuntu LTS, and i really need it because the hardware accelerate of unity 3D make my battery drain faster on ASUS ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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mount.ntfs taking all the CPU (WUBI)
I installed yesterday Ubuntu following the 'click and play' instructions of the (nicely done) ubuntu website. I used WUBI. Its installed in a partition of a drive that mainly has a Windows 7 install.
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How to determine what applications affect xorg/compiz load
Is there a way to tell which application causes huge cpu usage and huge load for xorg and compiz processes?
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Ubuntu 12.04lts, extremely slow mouse/graphics response
I installed Ubuntu on relatively good spec machine:
I7-3770k,
32GB RAM,
AMD HD7870 (2GB GDDR5),
OS installed on 128GB corsair SSD.
Unfortunately, I was seeing very slow response. Mouse pointer ...
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More than FOUR minutes to boot up my Ubuntu 12.04. What could be the problem?
I cannot tell exactly when this happened, but surely after upgrading to Ubuntu 12.04, but on my last bootup it lasted from selecting the distro on the GRUB menu to full usability 4 minutes 22 seconds ...
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server 12.04.02 LTS resources maxed out when idle. system freezes
I am having trouble with my dedicated server running 12.04.02 LTS. I have installed ffmpeg, apache2, and configured it to serve H264 video files. The server starts freezing when resources are maxed. ...
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Help with Kubuntu slow system
I was wondering if I could get some help with my Kubuntu installation on a friend's old laptop.
Got Kubuntu 12,04 running on an old Asus x51r, dual boot with Vista, which I won't be using at all ...
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Performance issues on Ubuntu 12.04 with multiple displays
I have a desktop with an Asus 4870 graphics card and two displays hooked up (a 23" Samsung SyncMaster 2333 and a 17" iiyama ProLite E430) with extended desktop. However, I am having severe performance ...
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Tweaking recommendations for SMC2108 / LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260-8i RAID adapter
OS: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS amd64
RAID Controller: MegaRAID SAS 9260-8i
MySQL: 5.5.31-ubuntu
Related post: ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 is extremely slow
I have installed Ubuntu in my desktop (AMD sempron LE-250 2.20GHz 2GB RAM) and is really, really slow when doing simple things like looking for my computer specifications, the mouse moves slow, the ...
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Is Unity still slower in 13.04?
I have seen a benchmark comparison somewhere where gaming FPS was higher on other most other DE's than Unity.
Is this still the case in Ubuntu 13.04?
Like this but then for 13.04.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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. ...
