quimico69
April 29th, 2009, 10:26 PM
Hello everybody,
I have a clean install of Hardy that is slow as molasses. This is the story:
About a week ago I made a full backup of my files, just to be on the safe side of things. As I finished the backup I thought it was a good time to upgrade from Hardy to Intrepid. So I did a clean install of Intrepid using the Kubuntu version. I did not like the result: the system was slow and the interface missed a lot of functionality, so I did another clean install of Intrepid w/Gnome. The result was also very sluggish, even after all the patches so I decided to go back to Hardy, and now my system is so slow as to be almost unusable. Before all this the machine had Hardy and was fast and snappy. I tried installing and running linux-386 kernel but it did not help much.
Using top shows that firefox and Xorg take up A LOT of cpu cycles.
My machine specs are:
HP compaq 6710b, Intel Celeron Duo, 1GB RAM, 120 GB hard disk, video intel GM965
any ideas?
I have a clean install of Hardy that is slow as molasses. This is the story:
About a week ago I made a full backup of my files, just to be on the safe side of things. As I finished the backup I thought it was a good time to upgrade from Hardy to Intrepid. So I did a clean install of Intrepid using the Kubuntu version. I did not like the result: the system was slow and the interface missed a lot of functionality, so I did another clean install of Intrepid w/Gnome. The result was also very sluggish, even after all the patches so I decided to go back to Hardy, and now my system is so slow as to be almost unusable. Before all this the machine had Hardy and was fast and snappy. I tried installing and running linux-386 kernel but it did not help much.
Using top shows that firefox and Xorg take up A LOT of cpu cycles.
My machine specs are:
HP compaq 6710b, Intel Celeron Duo, 1GB RAM, 120 GB hard disk, video intel GM965
any ideas?