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wildman4god
April 25th, 2009, 09:38 PM
I have a 6 year old laptop and I installed ubuntu 9.04 with ext4 and the proformance sucked, I reinstalled using ext3 and its a lot snappier flash works better, firefox doesn't max out the cpu. My laptop is a dell latitude D600, 1.8 GHz processor, 1 GB of ram and an 80 Gig hard drive (ide/PATA) this was my experiance so mabey it was just a fluck.
wolfen69
April 25th, 2009, 09:47 PM
what's a fluck?
wildman4god
April 25th, 2009, 09:50 PM
what's a fluck?


Pronounced Flook, a random glitch not normally present.
kamitsukai
April 25th, 2009, 09:55 PM
Pronounced Flook, a random glitch not normally present.

I think you mean fluke...
DrHackenbush
April 25th, 2009, 10:07 PM
Lol - I thought it was like a 'frak' there for a second. :-p
wildman4god
April 25th, 2009, 10:08 PM
I think you mean fluke...

sorry, spelling isn't my best subject :P
blueshiftoverwatch
April 25th, 2009, 10:18 PM
I have a 6 year old laptop and I installed ubuntu 9.04 with ext4 and the proformance sucked, I reinstalled using ext3 and its a lot snappier flash works better, firefox doesn't max out the cpu. My laptop is a dell latitude D600, 1.8 GHz processor, 1 GB of ram and an 80 Gig hard drive (ide/PATA) this was my experiance so mabey it was just a fluck.
It could just be something that only happens on certain peoples systems. I'll wait until other people respond and see what they have to say. But if that's true than I'm definitely not going to use ext4 on my computer. It's specs are less than yours.
CJ Master
April 26th, 2009, 12:44 AM
I think you mean fluke...

Fluke, I am your father. :twisted:

Lol. Regardless, I believe that it's just your computer... there's no reason why it should run slower.
kamitsukai
April 26th, 2009, 01:04 AM
sorry, spelling isn't my best subject :P

LOL don't apologise I had to look it up anyway...lolflag:
mister_k81
April 26th, 2009, 01:15 AM
Hmm... I'm running an older AthlonXP 2400+ 2.0ghz processor, 1gb of ram and a Geforce 6600 (desktop PC); and I haven't notice any performance issues with EXT4 yet. Everything feels very snappy and responsive to me. Boot times almost feel like they've been cut in half, this goes for starting up applications and system boot up.

The only minor issue I've noticed (and I'm not sure if this is an EXT4 problem or a video driver one), is that when I minimize or close some windows, they tend to "stick" to the desktop momentarily. Not a big problem, but it's something that I hadn't experienced with Ibex before.

Though, I am tempted to reformat again and reinstall with EXT3, just to compare the differences between the two.
tubezninja
April 26th, 2009, 01:23 AM
My initial tests with ext4 were on an old Athlon 2600+ system, 1.5GB of RAM and 80GB PATA/IDE hard drive. Early on the system would freeze up requiring me to power cycle, but that got fixed with the new jaunty kernel image just days before official release. Since then that same test machine has been running fine. My newer systems and servers are running ext4 fine as well.
mkendall
April 26th, 2009, 03:32 AM
Fluke, I am your father. :twisted:

Nooooooo. Fluck me.
|Mitch|
April 26th, 2009, 04:17 AM
I have a Asus Socket 754 motherboard, AMD Athlon 64 3400+ Over-clocked to 2.41 Ghz[2.2 Ghz standard], 1GB DDR 400 ram, 120 GB Western Digital SCSI HD, EXT4 and absolutely 0 problems.
K.Mandla
April 27th, 2009, 11:29 PM
I have a Asus Socket 754 motherboard, AMD Athlon 64 3400+ Over-clocked to 2.41 Ghz[2.2 Ghz standard], 1GB DDR 400 ram, 120 GB Western Digital SCSI HD, EXT4 and absolutely 0 problems.
Just as a note, I put 9.04 on a 1Ghz machine with 512Mb, used ext4 and I'm having zero problems too.

Perhaps the OPer might want to double-check their system? :)