iaw4
December 14th, 2012, 05:24 PM
I popped in a fast SSD and installed ubuntu 12.10 (64) on it. fresh. 4GB of RAM. pure vanilla.
booted into it. it makes the ARM chromebook look like a speed daemon. last time it felt so slow ws when I had a 386 that had to swap to a mechanical drive. I let it settle overnight to make sure that all housekeeping chores had been done, and then I just tried to find out some system details (clicked on Settings / Software Sources a few times), running a web browser with just a google search page, and a terminal to display what I am doing. These are the processes (and look at the CPU!):
Tasks: 202 total, 12 running, 186 sleeping, 0 stopped, 4 zombie
%Cpu(s): 63.8 us, 10.8 sy, 24.9 ni, 0.0 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.5 si, 0.0 st
KiB Mem: 3963252 total, 3098420 used, 864832 free, 84740 buffers
KiB Swap: 0 total, 0 used, 0 free, 1644620 cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
5714 root 25 5 453m 259m 170m R 96.5 6.7 11:53.34 aptd
8797 ivo 20 0 838m 30m 17m R 32.8 0.8 0:04.48 chromium-browse
1199 root 20 0 161m 21m 9584 S 31.5 0.6 20:24.15 Xorg
8708 ivo 20 0 624m 169m 81m R 25.1 4.4 2:07.59 software-proper
8750 ivo 20 0 551m 100m 48m R 25.1 2.6 0:36.12 software-proper
8173 ivo 20 0 561m 67m 36m R 23.3 1.8 1:41.66 chromium-browse
8742 ivo 20 0 590m 104m 49m S 22.1 2.7 0:36.88 software-proper
8746 ivo 20 0 597m 143m 81m R 19.6 3.7 0:42.25 software-proper
1547 ivo 20 0 1259m 102m 29m R 19.3 2.6 16:24.07 compiz
8748 ivo 20 0 548m 98m 48m R 18.7 2.5 0:32.47 software-proper
8744 ivo 20 0 549m 99m 48m R 15.9 2.6 0:34.31 software-proper
8725 ivo 20 0 622m 168m 81m R 15.3 4.4 1:39.45 software-proper
I am guessing that a few clicks on System Details created the large process footprints (which make no sense to me, either).
what is going on here?
one aspect I noticed is that Graphics is unknown (in Settings / Details). the mechanical switch for the graphics driver is on Stamina, which I presume is the Intel HD3000---which should be supported.
help appreciated...or I will have to switch to windows again :-(
/iaw
booted into it. it makes the ARM chromebook look like a speed daemon. last time it felt so slow ws when I had a 386 that had to swap to a mechanical drive. I let it settle overnight to make sure that all housekeeping chores had been done, and then I just tried to find out some system details (clicked on Settings / Software Sources a few times), running a web browser with just a google search page, and a terminal to display what I am doing. These are the processes (and look at the CPU!):
Tasks: 202 total, 12 running, 186 sleeping, 0 stopped, 4 zombie
%Cpu(s): 63.8 us, 10.8 sy, 24.9 ni, 0.0 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.5 si, 0.0 st
KiB Mem: 3963252 total, 3098420 used, 864832 free, 84740 buffers
KiB Swap: 0 total, 0 used, 0 free, 1644620 cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
5714 root 25 5 453m 259m 170m R 96.5 6.7 11:53.34 aptd
8797 ivo 20 0 838m 30m 17m R 32.8 0.8 0:04.48 chromium-browse
1199 root 20 0 161m 21m 9584 S 31.5 0.6 20:24.15 Xorg
8708 ivo 20 0 624m 169m 81m R 25.1 4.4 2:07.59 software-proper
8750 ivo 20 0 551m 100m 48m R 25.1 2.6 0:36.12 software-proper
8173 ivo 20 0 561m 67m 36m R 23.3 1.8 1:41.66 chromium-browse
8742 ivo 20 0 590m 104m 49m S 22.1 2.7 0:36.88 software-proper
8746 ivo 20 0 597m 143m 81m R 19.6 3.7 0:42.25 software-proper
1547 ivo 20 0 1259m 102m 29m R 19.3 2.6 16:24.07 compiz
8748 ivo 20 0 548m 98m 48m R 18.7 2.5 0:32.47 software-proper
8744 ivo 20 0 549m 99m 48m R 15.9 2.6 0:34.31 software-proper
8725 ivo 20 0 622m 168m 81m R 15.3 4.4 1:39.45 software-proper
I am guessing that a few clicks on System Details created the large process footprints (which make no sense to me, either).
what is going on here?
one aspect I noticed is that Graphics is unknown (in Settings / Details). the mechanical switch for the graphics driver is on Stamina, which I presume is the Intel HD3000---which should be supported.
help appreciated...or I will have to switch to windows again :-(
/iaw