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SpinningAround
April 19th, 2011, 05:34 PM
Hello, I have an old computer that is used for web, mail and writing. I have recently noticed that it's quite slow specially when loading web pages with flash, because of this I thought it might be worthwhile to change OS from Ubuntu 10.04 to Xubuntu 10.04.

Question is if it will do any difference and if there is more that can be done?

What can be the bottleneck CPU or Graphic card?

System information:


total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 749 502 247 0 54 245
-/+ buffers/cache: 202 547
Swap: 475 0 475


01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x] (rev a2)


processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 6
model : 8
model name : AMD Athlon(tm)
stepping : 1
cpu MHz : 1199.951
cache size : 256 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mp mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow up
bogomips : 2399.90
clflush size : 32
cache_alignment : 32
address sizes : 34 bits physical, 32 bits virtual
power management: ts

mörgæs
April 19th, 2011, 05:50 PM
If Flash is the problem, which is not uncommon, try to add Flashblock to your browsers.

mikewhatever
April 19th, 2011, 06:00 PM
Flash is a known resource hog, and using Xubuntu instead of Ubuntu won't change it.