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Why does Linux get slower the more you use it?
After installing applications, boot & app start times noticeably increase, the more I install & the longer I use the PC, the slower it gets. It's a significant slowdown, since the release of Dapper my laptops performance has halved, despite many optimisations from 'make ubuntu run like arch' (see sig).
It's not only Ubuntu, in the short time that I've used Zenwalk 4, it has also been apparent.
Has anyone else noticed this, any comments?
Tony.
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Never encountered this problem before. I got a lot of stuffs installed in my laptops, from Eclipse, Anjuta, Blender 3D, Google Earth, Firefox 2.0 to Wine with WoW, Dreamweaver, etc....I still feel like my Dapper freshly installed, it works like a charm...But of course, Your Mileage May Vary ...
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Very odd suggestion, but are the heatsinks/fans/airways in your laptop clean?
I have to blow the insides of my laptop out fairly regularly with an air can- when my laptop gets too hot, everything slows to a crawl or just plain hangs.
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mmmm... Ubuntu.
no, it doesn't get any slower on my machines.
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The key word here is not the length of use, it is the more you install. Windows does the same thing. I have found that the more you have on the hard drive, the slower a PC will go. You can do things to spead it up, I have added fans and memory to help, but once you get the hard drive half way full, it really seems to loose steam. I could be wrong, but that is my experiance.Originally Posted by Anthony Haslam
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Clean as a whistle, it rarely leaves my desk & doesn't get too hot.
It has seriously slowed down though. I did an Edgy server install on another partition & installed mostly just X & Xfce, it was way slower than what a full Dapper was upon release
Judging by the other replys, I guess something may be deteriorating in my crappy lappy
Tony.
PS. I'm currently typing from Zenwalk running Openbox, even this is slightly slower than what Dapper once was
Tony.
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yeah, i think i would check the hardware, is your swap large enough, do a check on your hard drive and memory, and check it's getting all the power it needs, try a different power adapter and battery if you can.
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That's what I was originally thinking, but it shouldn't half the performance. My disk is about 75% full with 2 distro's (ubuntu & zenwalk), spanning over 5 partitions.
With little fragmentation & separate home/swap/root partitions, as long is there is free space, surely it shouldn't make that much difference
Tony.
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My swap is twice that of my RAM
The usual check on every 30th mount never throws up any errors.
Regards the memory, would that mem thing in the grub menu suffice (I'll try it anyway)?
Unfortunately, I don't know anyone with the same piece of junk to swap batteries & leads over.
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It seems that I have bad RAM, memtest86 gives an error on test 5 @ 00017ea0f18 - 382MB.
Last edited by ahaslam; December 16th, 2006 at 12:47 AM. Reason: drunken typo
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