steelrealm
October 20th, 2008, 09:47 PM
Hey everyone,
I'm relatively new to the Linux and Ubuntu communities. After some time playing with multiple Live CD's I decided it was time to actually install a distrobution onto my secondary Harddrive.
I'm running on an older machine and have Windows XP running fine on the other harddrive(Dualboot). Specs are as follows:
P4 1.7GHz Proccessor
512mb RAM
240mb swap
So.. I booted up the live CD I'd just burned for Xubuntu and formatted the harddrive. I installed the OS seemingly without a hitch. I was greeted with 110 important or recommanded updates. I installed them all...
Unfortunately I didn't take the time to look at my systems preformance before the updates but my system currently runs at anywhere from 5-40% of CPU's total when idle/switching windows and with 200mb of RAM (all the way up to 300 when doing very little).
I was just wondering if maybe there was something wrong with these numbers, and if so what I could do to lower them.
Is it possibly all the gnome / gkt updates I just are bogging down the system?
I choose Xubuntu because I thought it would work well on my hardware, but as is, my computer is running slowly on Xubuntu and r
eaches 100% CPU regularly. I am VERY worried about the well being of the machine (being old, and my only one) and if theres anything I can do to lower the CPU load I would love to know.
Thanks!
I'm relatively new to the Linux and Ubuntu communities. After some time playing with multiple Live CD's I decided it was time to actually install a distrobution onto my secondary Harddrive.
I'm running on an older machine and have Windows XP running fine on the other harddrive(Dualboot). Specs are as follows:
P4 1.7GHz Proccessor
512mb RAM
240mb swap
So.. I booted up the live CD I'd just burned for Xubuntu and formatted the harddrive. I installed the OS seemingly without a hitch. I was greeted with 110 important or recommanded updates. I installed them all...
Unfortunately I didn't take the time to look at my systems preformance before the updates but my system currently runs at anywhere from 5-40% of CPU's total when idle/switching windows and with 200mb of RAM (all the way up to 300 when doing very little).
I was just wondering if maybe there was something wrong with these numbers, and if so what I could do to lower them.
Is it possibly all the gnome / gkt updates I just are bogging down the system?
I choose Xubuntu because I thought it would work well on my hardware, but as is, my computer is running slowly on Xubuntu and r
eaches 100% CPU regularly. I am VERY worried about the well being of the machine (being old, and my only one) and if theres anything I can do to lower the CPU load I would love to know.
Thanks!