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Why is find running here?
I noticed very high IOwait, even copying/pasting from NetBeans to Firefox was taking several minutes and hanging for a long while. In powertop, I noticed:
Usage Events/s Category ...
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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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8GB of RAM for Ubuntu
I have read the previous posts about the 8GB of RAM issues but I don't find any answer to my question.
I have this configuration:
CPU Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz Socket 1155 95W con GPU Sandy ...
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How to fully utilize RAM to increase overall system performance
I have a low profile machine but with a lot of fast RAM, 4 Gb, which is really an amount of memory that i probably will never use, not even an half, since i just use this machine for coding and ...
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Why does whoopsie increasingly take more CPU?
I am running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and I've been following whoopsie with the top program and noticed something strange.
In the afternoon the daemon process was only using up to 2% of CPU power.
But ...
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Need more RAM?? Running VMmachine + ubuntu
So I looked but im running ubuntu in vm machine and its running at a snails pace and I installed the 64bit ver. Running windows 7 64bit the down side is that I only have 2GB of ram ...
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Ubuntu swappiness
I have a laptop with 4 GB RAM and i3 processor. It runs very fast when I use windows, but it keeps slowing down on my Ubuntu when I use it continuously. I noticed that 500mb+ swap is getting used even ...
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Best Ubuntu version for Virtualbox host
What is the best version to use as a Virtualbox host OS? Is it 12.04, or 9.04? I get the notion that an older system runs faster. Is this true? I especially have to consider the amount of RAM ...
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How to speed up installation?
I have an Acer 4736z with 2gb Ram and ubuntu 12.04 is running too slow for my standards.
I would like to know if I am running useless processes that I am not aware of and remove packages I will never ...
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Good way to run Java and Eclipse from a ramdisk
It is often suggested to me that to improve the performance of the Eclipse development environment, that I should move the Java JDK/JVM (and possibly Eclipse) to a Ramdisk.
I know that the Ubuntu has ...
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Performance of Ubuntu 11.10 [closed]
I have installed Ubuntu 11.10 alongside with Windows XP. My system RAM is 2 GB. I am seeing the slowness in the Ubuntu. Do you think that I have increase the RAM size to use the Ubuntu?.
Thanks,
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Disk I/O makes desktop unusable. System consumes too much memory
I have a long-term problem with my Acer TravelMate 3002WTMi (Pentium-M 1.73Ghz, 512 MB RAM) and Xubuntu 11.10. Whenever load increases machine tends to slow down to the point that it's totally ...
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Does removing extra workspaces in Unity2d impact CPU or RAM performance?
I never used workspaces, so I have set number of workspaces to 1.
After restarting, unity seems to be kinda snappier.
What`s in theory?
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Which of these services can I safely disable?
Before install stuff on my server I wanted to trim down unnecessary services. etc.
Here's the top:
615 ubuntu 20 0 26948 7384 1648 S 0.0 1.2 0:00.39 bash ...
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Would I benefit from reducing, or increasing swappiness?
I've read a few articles now about changing the swappiness level on Ubuntu to possibly increase performance. But I'm very unfamiliar with how swappiness works, would I benefit from increasing, or ...
