Reduce delay time when launching an application?

[hongquan1987]

When launching an application, I always have to wait a while (especially long with Firefox) before it shows completely. What can I do in order not to wait any more?

[inobe]

my applications load instantly, i have 1 gig of ram and a dual core cpu.



it may just be low system resources

[konqueror7]

sudo apt-get install preload

here for more info (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=189192) regarding performance and stuffs...

hope it helps...

[lisati]

What sort of RAM do you have on your system? On the laptop I normally use for Ubuntu, I have only 222Mb available RAM, and loading programs tends to make things sluggish. On my other laptop, which has 2Gb ram, starting programs was a breeze when I had Ubuntu on it.

[hongquan1987]

my applications load instantly, i have 1 gig of ram and a dual core cpu.
it may just be low system resources

Is there no way but upgrading hardware? I think upgrading hardware must be latest choice.

When I upgrade RAM 512MB to 1.2GB, there's no clear change.

[krismatth3]

When I upgrade RAM 512MB to 1.2GB, there's no clear change.

Is this a physical machine or a virtual machine? What type of storage is being used? What load is the system under (e.g. what else is going on?)

[hongquan1987]

Is this a physical machine or a virtual machine? What type of storage is being used? What load is the system under (e.g. what else is going on?)

Physical machine.
Your question is ambiguous. I used DDR-RAM, HDD's kind of IDE. Is that what you asked?

[HavocXphere]

Make sure that your hard drives are 7200rpm drives, not 5400. Make quite a difference.

With FF, its often the add-ons that load slowly. e.g. Ad block plus loads the block list, which is painfully slow.