Ubuntu 10.10 Slow

[iCeD00D]

Good evening. I just loaded the latest release on my box and noticed after configuring my vid card, that Ubuntu is slow running. When I click something as simple as Ubuntu Software Manager it takes almost 30s-1m for the application to come up. If this was one of my old boxes I could understand this but this is a fairly new box. Any help to 'tweek' the box would be great. Below are my system specs. Thanks much ...

MB - SiS 661FX w/latest bios
CPU - P4 3.2Ghz w/1G L2 cache
Memory - 2GB unbuffered
Hard Drive - SATA Seagate 1.5TB 7200RPM drive
CDROM/DVD - Lighton SATA
Videocard - ATI HD 3600 (yes I've installed the drivers according to the Maverick Wiki)

[sikander3786]

Welcome to the forums :-)

From Applications > Accessories > Terminal, check the CPU and memory usage.


top

Post the output here so we can have a look as well.

In addition, post the output of these commands.


lspci | grep VGA


glxinfo | grep vendor

This is desktop or netbook editiion? And, is compiz enabled?

[necrocyber]

I have almost the same problem, in my notebook Ubuntu 10.10 presents slow. I already try make tests in other computers but the slow happened the same form.
Other problem I've had is with my keyboard when i type the computers costs recognize what is typed.


If someone know what's happening i would appreciate.



Obs: I already install the video drivers.

[iCeD00D]

Welcome to the forums :-)

From Applications > Accessories > Terminal, check the CPU and memory usage.


topPost the output here so we can have a look as well.

In addition, post the output of these commands.


lspci | grep VGA
glxinfo | grep vendorThis is desktop or netbook editiion? And, is compiz enabled?

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Thanks for the reply.. below is the info you requested



root@iCe-UbunTU:~# top
top - 16:58:09 up 1 day, 17:18, 3 users, load average: 3.11, 2.78, 2.61
Tasks: 163 total, 3 running, 158 sleeping, 0 stopped, 2 zombie
Cpu(s): 22.6%us, 5.1%sy, 0.0%ni, 67.5%id, 4.6%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.2%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 2060872k total, 1908096k used, 152776k free, 235352k buffers
Swap: 3069948k total, 8k used, 3069940k free, 917392k cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
11535 root 20 0 260m 94m 49m R 23 4.7 473:54.18 Xorg
13327 ice 20 0 86896 19m 11m S 17 1.0 364:22.18 gnome-system-mo
11682 ice 20 0 276m 74m 21m S 4 3.7 94:53.30 cairo-dock
13382 ice 20 0 445m 79m 29m R 3 3.9 160:29.20 firefox-bin
8422 ice 20 0 91980 13m 10m S 3 0.7 0:00.84 gnome-terminal
11686 ice 20 0 39728 21m 7184 S 3 1.1 53:04.57 compiz
13416 ice 20 0 164m 38m 16m S 1 1.9 35:54.78 plugin-containe
29155 ice 20 0 208m 53m 22m S 1 2.7 16:05.61 skype
26651 ice 20 0 224m 105m 20m S 1 5.3 26:10.35 software-center
8533 root 20 0 2620 1124 832 R 0 0.1 0:00.06 top
11667 ice 20 0 99392 11m 8516 S 0 0.6 0:30.32 gnome-settings-
11689 ice 20 0 219m 76m 20m S 0 3.8 5:00.15 nautilus
14248 ice 20 0 118m 38m 23m S 0 1.9 17:30.90 qbittorrent
1 root 20 0 2888 1640 1172 S 0 0.1 0:00.85 init
2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd
3 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:18.52 ksoftirqd/0
4 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:01.04 migration/0



root@iCe-UbunTU:~# lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Mobility Radeon HD 3600 Series



root@iCe-UbunTU:~# glxinfo | grep vendor
server glx vendor string: ATI
client glx vendor string: ATI
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.


Compiz - Enabled

Ubuntu 10.10 - Desktop Edition

Thanks much ...

[Clive McCarthy]

I had a very similar problem. I gave up and did a fresh install of 10.10 and things are OK. It seems that many other folks, upgrading to 10.10, have similar problems with the system becoming almost unresponsive.

One thing I did notice was that a very large amount of memory was being used even when nothing but the terminal was running. A similar thing is happening in icedood's top listing:

Mem: 2060872k total, 1908096k used
this shows 92% memory used but only ~30% is showing up in running applications!

Looks like the kernel has somehow hogged memory (a kernel core leak?)
After a fresh install of 10.10 things are behaving normally with much less memory in use.

Installing 10.10 fresh from a CD is a drag. After it is installed there is still 200MB of update to download! Not to mention the need to install sharing... :rolleyes:

[iCeD00D]

Funny thing Clive is that this is my 2nd CD install :( .... the first one was on an old 500GB SATA drive and this current one above is on a 1.5TB SATA drive.... I noticed that the memory was also being used up and still can not figure out why..... So for now im going to load Xfce to see if that solves the problem... With my puter stats Ubuntu should be zooooooming .. not acting like Windows 3.1 ... :( :(

[Clive McCarthy]

I somehow doubt that it is a problem with Gnome.

The machine I have that became unusable is a very feeble Celeron 430 1.8Ghz with 2GB ram and a 400GB Maxtor SATA drive and plain Intel G45 graphics. I have installed 10.10 on several other machines without trouble. It has been irritating because the machine is just used to port/recompile my code for several Ubuntu client machines. It is just a trash box I made out of bits that were lying around. It is still very slow when simply copying files to my client machines using Samba mount in a shell script.

I have had trouble with the Ubuntu upgrade process in the past. What we are experiencing is not unique.