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]

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?

[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

[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)

[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?