Questions tagged [performance]

Questions about improving the performance, speed, and/or overall system responsiveness 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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Strip down GNOME in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS visual to the very bare minimum and make it faster

Hello I'm on a notebook that is running a virtual machine with ubuntu 22 lts, but for various reasons (security one of them) I'm not using VM tools or 3D acceleration so the system is a bit laggy, ...
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Minecraft getting low frames on dedicated GPU despite GPU usage being low

First, some system specifications: Running an i5-11400H for a processor Using an Nvidia RTX 3050 ti for a graphics card I've already forced the game to use the graphics card, and the performance is ...
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when i open davinci resolve my pc starts to make high pitch noise (fan noise ) is it normal ??on normal use it never makes that noise [duplicate]

is it normal ??on normal use it never makes that noise there is no power switching option in my pc to switch to performance mode . i have tride to restart and switch to my dedicated graphics card ...
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What can cause a Ubuntu 22.04 system to suddenly become very slow?

I've used my Ubuntu 22.04 installation for around 6 months now for work (software development work). Yesterday morning all was fine as usual, but when I came back from lunch, the entire system was ...
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Best Practices and Flavor for Running DaVinci Resolve

Short of learning a new distro entirely, but staying within the Ubuntu family, what are best practices and flavors for running a resource-hungry and somewhat update-finicky application like DaVinci ...
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Samba traffic - Connection down

Very strange behaviour of my home network. I connected a new pc to network, via Ethernet cable in switch. There are also other pc connected, same way. Since I plugged the cable, each time I open a ...
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Constant CPU Frequency at Base 1.1 GHz on Intel Pentium Silver N5000

I'm experiencing an issue with my ASUS x507ma laptop, which is equipped with an Intel Pentium Silver N5000 (Gemini Lake) processor. On various Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, CentOS, or Debian, ...
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perfrormance dip when playing youtube on surface go 2

I've installed Ubuntu 23.10 GNOME on my Surface Go 2 because Windows 11 is way too slow. I only use it to watch youtube and occasionally stream simple games from my main desktop with parsec. it worked ...
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Stuttering/frame skipping on Ubuntu 22.04 / 23.04

For a few months now (maybe 6 months, I'm not exactly sure when it started) I've been experiencing persistent stuttering at random intervals. It doesn't bother me much for general use but it is really ...
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How to know if my NVMe SSD needs TRIM

Running Ubuntu 22.04 on my main laptop. I am using 4TB TEAMGROUP MP34 NVMe as my main drive. The file system is ext4. Yesterday (Nov 16), while downloading some large files (about 300 files, 600GB ...
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How can I track down seeming performance issue

I have two similar laptops, both thinkpad P series. I will outline their specs: New Laptop: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-12850HX (16 core 24 thread) 128GB DDR5, 4TB SSD (2x2TB) Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS Old Laptop:...
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Keyboard language change and very bad performance when booting battery

I encounter a very weird behaviour when booting Ubuntu 20.04 in battery mode. I automount a few encrypted partitions (some from internal, some external drive) via crypttab using Veracrypt. Up until ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 very slow on AMD EPYC 7302

I have install Ubuntu 22.04 on brand new Supermicro server (AMD EPYC 7302). Everything went good during installation but when I try to install or remove package and just stuck there for very long time,...
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This simple script chewed up a lot of CPU, why?

I have a remote machine I need to keep an eye on. It's running Ubuntu Studio 22.04 (KDE Plasma). A few weeks ago it crashed and journalctl showed a "Bug" that occurred a couple minutes ...
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Not getting the Performance mode on my laptop. Ubuntu 22.04

I have a Lenovo Legion 5 pro. Which has a Ryzen 7 5800H, Nvidia RTX 3060 and an AMD integrated graphics card. In my laptop, the performance mode is not showing up at all! (it only shows Balanced and ...
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Minecraft Performance Problem

So, i switched from Windows 11 to Ubuntu yesterday and i have installed all the programs i had before. Although Minecraft Java is running extremely bad on my new OS, any ideas why? Before i switched ...
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Serious issues with speed in 22.04.3

I have read many posts and tried a few basic things to resolve this issue, but before I take more ambitious actions, I thought I would seek help. I am running 22.04.3; I like to stick with LTS ...
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How to tune CPU Usage granularity?

It is about getrusage. It works well but precision/granularity is not precise enough. It does not depend on CPU and its performance. Depends on kernel only. For actual kernel 4+ the precision is 3800 ...
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comparing performance of two ubuntu system when running one application?

I have two computers, both running Ubuntu 22.04 One computer is a laptop, the other a desktop. On both computer I installed FlightGear (flight simulator), and i am surprised that the application (...
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Google Chrome "Force quit" issue and delay in keyboard typing and moving mouse pointer

So, I did a dual boot of Windows and Ubuntu for a Linux experience on my PC with 8GB RAM, Intel i3 processor, 128 GB SSD, and 1 TB HDD. I gave a 40 GB SSD partition for the root directory and 300+ GB ...
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Why my CPU frequencies high but application performance is poor

I have two similar raspberry pi running Ubuntu with little difference in their configuration. I am trying to monitor their performance for running my application. So I am running my app on both ...
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Ubuntu very slow on Dual boot

I Have recently dual booted Ubuntu on my old windows laptop. But after installation Ubuntu feels very slow. It takes much time to boot and reach to login screen. Opening basic Applications like file ...
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Distant black effect

I have downloaded American Truck Simulator in my Ubuntu 20.04. I am playing with PlayOnLinux and I don't know why my game is running very slow and has this distant black effect. I have downloaded ...
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Relatively new to Linux [duplicate]

While I've tinkered with Linux in the past, I have become fed up with Apple, and I dislike Windows very much. So, now I'm getting serious about changing over. I've already posted my 1st question, but ...
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Video performance on ACER Aspire One on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Lubuntu)

I'm using an ACER Aspire One with ATOM processor and 2GB RAM running Lubuntu 20.04 Focal. I believe I should be able to play a simple video file in VLC but it is basically playing back with sound and ...
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How to Increase RAM cache/buffer on ubuntu 22.04 desktop

i have 32GB Ram I noticed my Cache is usually around 5gb or less. The most of my ram is wasting. in my understanding RAM's Cache is to speed up system and performance. so I was wondering are there ...
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Exploiting the potential of RAM in a computer with a large amount of it

I have a machine with 64 GB of RAM and I would like to be able to take full advantage of it in Ubuntu. Is there any application or way to achieve this? I mean something that leaves loaded in RAM ...
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Suspicious file under /usr/bin in Ubuntu 20.04

I have seen one of the process consuming 40% of the CPU. Up on check there is a file /usr/bin/ujwjzppyff running with "grep -A" command. file /usr/bin/ujwjzppyff /usr/bin/ujwjzppyff: ELF 32-...
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Disabling CPU frequency scaling Ubuntu 20.04

I'm using Ubuntu 20.04, and following this tutorial to disable CPU frequency scaling. I have done: sudo systemctl disable ondemand sudo systemctl enable cpufrequtils sudo sh -c 'echo "GOVERNOR=...
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My laptop has become slower, the fans are louder

i've got a laptop running on Ubuntu 22.04, an RTX 2060 mobile, an intel core i7-9750h cpu, 16gb of ram, a 512gb ssd, which means I shouldn't have much trouble using firefox or other software, but I ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 - Delay in keystrokes on Bluetooth keyboard

The problem: I've been using Ubuntu 22.04 for a few months now, and I use the Logitech K380 keyboard which has always worked perfectly. However, a few days ago I started having problems with delayed ...
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Have can I "disable" these local timer interrupts after isolating cores?

I am trying to isolate CPU cores from the scheduler and any other unwanted activity. I have already set a few parameters on the kernel command line and updated grub: cat /proc/cmdline BOOT_IMAGE=/...
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KWORKER is hogging the processor

My plex server on Ubuntu server 22.04.2 was buffering too much so I checked my processes with the top command and it showed this. I don't know what it is. Can I stop it? It's using 20% of my CPU. ...
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What's the best way to forward a local port to a port on a remote machine that minimizes latency?

For this question, assume all computers involved are running the most-recent Ubuntu LTS release (or similar, such as Ubuntu Server). I have a computer on my LAN. Let's call it "Local Server",...
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Ubuntu very slow despite high specs PC

I have received a PC 2 days ago and I did a fresh installation of Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS, however, the system feels pretty slow given the PC specs. Settings take around a second to load, Firefox more, etc....
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How to fix system Lag and Stuttering on Ubuntu 22.04 & NVIDIA

I have been trying to diagnose the cause of lagging, stuttering videos and poor video call performance for quite some time now. In the past, everything worked smoothly. I can't recall when it started ...
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Snaps are still slow

Don't get me wrong. I have nothing against snaps, contrary to the typical discussions on reddit. But I am actually surprised to see that snaps are still slow. In some snaps, you can´t noticed the ...
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Ubuntu 22.04.1 throttling cpu from 4000mhz to 400mhz-1000mhz even under high load

My main laptop runs Ubuntu 22.04.1 on an Intel Core -7-11370H CPU @ 3.300GHz. I usually use it to code and play games, but whenever I run the laptop, it just randomly fluctuates from 4.0 GHz to 800 ...
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very slow and inconsistent NFS file system response on ubuntu 22.04.2

Running Ubuntu 22.04.2 with latest patches. This host is an NFS client running kernel Linux adam408 5.19.0-35-generic #36~22.04.1-Ubuntu Connectivity is over 25gig Ethernet to Cisco Nexus fabric. NFS ...
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Ubuntu responses too slow in asus flow z13 (22.10 and 22.04 LTS)

I tried both version 22.10 and 22.04 LTS on Asus Flow z13 (having i9-12900h, 16 gb ram, gpu rtx 3050 Ti, and 1Tb ssd) even from installation, it responses too slow. As i plug usb for installation, ...
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Surprising slowdown with Apache/NFS on Ubuntu 22.04.2

This question has been radically edited due to further investigation into the problem TL:DR; We have been running Apache on Ubuntu serving NFS pages for over 20 years now and a new emergent issue has ...
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Why is Kubuntu 22.04 much slower than Debian 11 with KDE? [closed]

I recently switched from Windows 7 Ultimate to Kubuntu 22.04 LTS on my 10-year-old HP laptop. I love it for a lot of reasons, except for the performance. Compared to Windows 7 running on the same ...
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WSL2 Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS Performance Mode

Is there a way to set WSL2 Ubuntu 22 to performance mode? I know the original version of the OS you can just set it to performance mode but I'm not sure how to do it through WSL2. When I run grep &...
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How can I improve the performance and stability of my Ubuntu installation which runs slow and crashes at times?

I recently switched from Windows and installed Ubuntu 22.04 on my computer, but I have been experiencing slow performance and occasional crashes. Are there any solutions to improve the speed and ...
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performance is extremely slow on a 2 core 64bit laptop with 4GB ram? how can I troubleshoot?

I installed latest release of Lubuntu (with the LXQt DE) on my HP dm1z notebook. it has an AMD E-350 64bit fusion processor with 4GB Ram and 2 cores at 1.6GHZ it is completely bogged down. takes like ...
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Incomplete turbo boost on all cores in Ubuntu 22.04 and 22.10

I have an HP laptop with Core i5-8300h and it almost doesn't use all-core turbo after couple minutes after boot. When I run a single threaded task, it maintains frequencies of 3.5-4 GHz, but as I run ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 - how can I stop waiting for NetworkManager.service during startup?

I prefer network to setup itself when I start computer, but I prefer to boot earlier and have network connect while I type my password and so on. Sadly, according to systemd-analyze critical-chain I ...
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Performance governator sets the speed limits to low?

Running cpufreq-info I get the following outputs on one of my cpu's analyzing CPU 15: driver: intel_pstate CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 15 CPUs which need to have their ...
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Why is power settings not working in Ubuntu 22.04? Why don't I have performance mode?

Recently I switched from Windows to Ubuntu. When I was in Windows performance settings used to work fine. I was able to switch between balanced, power saver and high performance modes, but I noticed ...
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Intel 12 gen and Ubuntu 22.10 - abysmal battery life, any solution?

I have Lenovo T14 Gen 3 with Intel i7 1260p (no dedicated GPU, only intel one's) and running Ubuntu 22.10 The performance is great (laptop is faster than 2-3 years old desktop with the most powerful ...
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