how to speed up unity for an old computer.

[jiggajoe506]

Hey guys,

My house is finally a fully unix based house! I don't know for how much longer though because the last computer I just loaded Ubuntu on moves incredibly slow running ubuntu. I running 12.04 Unity 2D but that doesn't really seem to help. Is there anything I can do to speed things up? Although I learned ubuntu on gnome, I prefer to stay in unity because of the search feature. Heres a little background on my machine

Acer Aspire
4GB DDR3
70 GB HDD (with 66GBs remaining)

I don't run many programs at once. Let me know what you think because unity 's

[rushikesh988]

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http://mygeekopinions.blogspot.in/20...sktop-run.html

[lykwydchykyn]

Man, time has flown by if a machine using DDR3 is now "old".

If a machine with those specs is slow, it's most likely a graphics card issue. What's your graphics hardware?

[jiggajoe506]

I was just reading that... I thin mozilla just takes up too many resources also because I was just running chrome fine and it was pretty speedy. Is there a way to run the search function unity has in gnome?

[jiggajoe506]

Man, time has flown by if a machine using DDR3 is now "old".

If a machine with those specs is slow, it's most likely a graphics card issue. What's your graphics hardware?

How do I check that so I can give you that information.

Also How do I check my DDR just to make sure I am right its DDR?

[Mopar1973Man]

The only thing I can think of is back down on the desktop and head over to LXDE desktop. It will help a bunch but still might be heavy load for the older series. I managed to get a 13 year old Sony VAIO laptop to run on Ubuntu 12.04 (LXDE desktop) but its still slow. (800 MHz AMD, 192MB RAM, 10 GB hard Drive)

[NikTh]

How do I check that so I can give you that information.

Also How do I check my DDR just to make sure I am right its DDR?

Open a terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T keys combo) and paste here the results of these commands

lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 vga
sudo dmidecode -t 5,6,17

Put the results here between the brackets [code]here[/code] so can be easy to read.

Thanks

[jiggajoe506]

first command results:

00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation C61 [GeForce 6100 nForce 405] [10de:03d1] (rev a2)
    Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems Device [1019:2601]
    Kernel driver in use: nvidia

Second command results:

# dmidecode 2.11
SMBIOS 2.3 present.

Handle 0x0008, DMI type 5, 24 bytes
Memory Controller Information
    Error Detecting Method: 64-bit ECC
    Error Correcting Capabilities:
        None
    Supported Interleave: One-way Interleave
    Current Interleave: One-way Interleave
    Maximum Memory Module Size: 4096 MB
    Maximum Total Memory Size: 16384 MB
    Supported Speeds:
        70 ns
        60 ns
        50 ns
    Supported Memory Types:
        Standard
        DIMM
    Memory Module Voltage: 2.9 V
    Associated Memory Slots: 4
        0x0009
        0x000A
        0x000B
        0x000C
    Enabled Error Correcting Capabilities: None

Handle 0x0009, DMI type 6, 12 bytes
Memory Module Information
    Socket Designation: A0
    Bank Connections: 0
    Current Speed: 10 ns
    Type: Other Unknown EDO
    Installed Size: 1024 MB (Single-bank Connection)
    Enabled Size: 1024 MB (Single-bank Connection)
    Error Status: OK

Handle 0x000A, DMI type 6, 12 bytes
Memory Module Information
    Socket Designation: A1
    Bank Connections: 2
    Current Speed: 10 ns
    Type: Other Unknown EDO
    Installed Size: 1024 MB (Single-bank Connection)
    Enabled Size: 1024 MB (Single-bank Connection)
    Error Status: OK

Handle 0x000B, DMI type 6, 12 bytes
Memory Module Information
    Socket Designation: A2
    Bank Connections: 4
    Current Speed: 10 ns
    Type: Other Unknown EDO
    Installed Size: 1024 MB (Single-bank Connection)
    Enabled Size: 1024 MB (Single-bank Connection)
    Error Status: OK

Handle 0x000C, DMI type 6, 12 bytes
Memory Module Information
    Socket Designation: A3
    Bank Connections: 6
    Current Speed: 10 ns
    Type: Other Unknown EDO
    Installed Size: 1024 MB (Single-bank Connection)
    Enabled Size: 1024 MB (Single-bank Connection)
    Error Status: OK

Handle 0x0023, DMI type 17, 27 bytes
Memory Device
    Array Handle: 0x0022
    Error Information Handle: Not Provided
    Total Width: 64 bits
    Data Width: 64 bits
    Size: 1024 MB
    Form Factor: DIMM
    Set: None
    Locator: A0
    Bank Locator: Bank0/1
    Type: Unknown
    Type Detail: None
    Speed: Unknown
    Manufacturer: None
    Serial Number: None
    Asset Tag: None
    Part Number: None

Handle 0x0024, DMI type 17, 27 bytes
Memory Device
    Array Handle: 0x0022
    Error Information Handle: Not Provided
    Total Width: 64 bits
    Data Width: 64 bits
    Size: 1024 MB
    Form Factor: DIMM
    Set: None
    Locator: A1
    Bank Locator: Bank2/3
    Type: Unknown
    Type Detail: None
    Speed: Unknown
    Manufacturer: None
    Serial Number: None
    Asset Tag: None
    Part Number: None

Handle 0x0025, DMI type 17, 27 bytes
Memory Device
    Array Handle: 0x0022
    Error Information Handle: Not Provided
    Total Width: 64 bits
    Data Width: 64 bits
    Size: 1024 MB
    Form Factor: DIMM
    Set: None
    Locator: A2
    Bank Locator: Bank4/5
    Type: Unknown
    Type Detail: None
    Speed: Unknown
    Manufacturer: None
    Serial Number: None
    Asset Tag: None
    Part Number: None

Handle 0x0026, DMI type 17, 27 bytes
Memory Device
    Array Handle: 0x0022
    Error Information Handle: Not Provided
    Total Width: 64 bits
    Data Width: 64 bits
    Size: 1024 MB
    Form Factor: DIMM
    Set: None
    Locator: A3
    Bank Locator: Bank6/7
    Type: Unknown
    Type Detail: None
    Speed: Unknown
    Manufacturer: None
    Serial Number: None
    Asset Tag: None
    Part Number: None

Thanks

[NikTh]

Ram has not the info that should has. The info in dmidecode depends in what the manufacturer passed in to the chip. In my results in section 17 (memory device) I have the info from the Type of Ram.

My results

Handle 0x001D, DMI type 17, 28 bytes
Memory Device
    Array Handle: 0x001A
    Error Information Handle: 0x001F
    Total Width: 64 bits
    Data Width: 64 bits
    Size: 4096 MB
    Form Factor: SODIMM
    Set: None
    Locator: DIMM1
    Bank Locator: BANK 2
    Type: DDR3
    Type Detail: Synchronous
    Speed: 1067 MHz
    Manufacturer: Not Specified
    Serial Number: 3555B50B
    Asset Tag: Unknown
    Part Number: HMT351S6CFR8C-H9  
    Rank: Unknown

Your results

Handle 0x0023, DMI type 17, 27 bytes
Memory Device
    Array Handle: 0x0022
    Error Information Handle: Not Provided
    Total Width: 64 bits
    Data Width: 64 bits
    Size: 1024 MB
    Form Factor: DIMM
    Set: None
    Locator: A0
    Bank Locator: Bank0/1
    Type: Unknown
    Type Detail: None
    Speed: Unknown
    Manufacturer: None
    Serial Number: None
    Asset Tag: None
    Part Number: None

Handle 0x0024, DMI type 17, 27 bytes
Memory Device
    Array Handle: 0x0022
    Error Information Handle: Not Provided
    Total Width: 64 bits
    Data Width: 64 bits
    Size: 1024 MB
    Form Factor: DIMM
    Set: None
    Locator: A1
    Bank Locator: Bank2/3
    Type: Unknown
    Type Detail: None
    Speed: Unknown
    Manufacturer: None
    Serial Number: None
    Asset Tag: None
    Part Number: None

Handle 0x0025, DMI type 17, 27 bytes
Memory Device
    Array Handle: 0x0022
    Error Information Handle: Not Provided
    Total Width: 64 bits
    Data Width: 64 bits
    Size: 1024 MB
    Form Factor: DIMM
    Set: None
    Locator: A2
    Bank Locator: Bank4/5
    Type: Unknown
    Type Detail: None
    Speed: Unknown
    Manufacturer: None
    Serial Number: None
    Asset Tag: None
    Part Number: None

Handle 0x0026, DMI type 17, 27 bytes
Memory Device
    Array Handle: 0x0022
    Error Information Handle: Not Provided
    Total Width: 64 bits
    Data Width: 64 bits
    Size: 1024 MB
    Form Factor: DIMM
    Set: None
    Locator: A3
    Bank Locator: Bank6/7
    Type: Unknown
    Type Detail: None
    Speed: Unknown
    Manufacturer: None
    Serial Number: None
    Asset Tag: None
    Part Number: None

Personally I cannot understand what type of Ram you use (DDR1 or DDR2 or DDR3), neither speed is available in the info section.

The graphics card seems OK, you have nvidia proprietary driver installed.

[jiggajoe506]

I suppose I can log in the windows side and download crucial's program that tells me what type of ram I have. Now I am concerned about why it couldn't figure out what type of DDR it is. Let me try to reboot and run that command again.