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Computer running slow since updates

Asked by Shawn A Whitbeck

Today a list of updates come up, and I installed them all. Ever since then, my PC is running VERY slow, almost Windows slow. The pointer for the mouse freezes up, and have to press ESC to get out of it. When trying to chat, the chat windows are going very slow. When trying to Skype with family, even that was being VERY slow. It's never acts like this, until I do the updates. This is the second time its done it. The last time, after about a week it finally started working right again, but now its back to the same ole games.

Someone please help.......

Thank you!

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delance (olivier-delance) said : 		#1

Which version of Ubuntu do you run: Standard or Netbook ?
Run line command "top" and look if a process take most of CPU time.

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Shawn A Whitbeck (shawn-a-whitbeck) said : 		#2

I use Ubuntu 10.10 on a Dell Inspiron 1545 Laptop.

top - 01:17:36 up 4:47, 2 users, load average: 2.22, 1.80, 1.70
Tasks: 162 total, 1 running, 161 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 48.4%us, 20.6%sy, 0.0%ni, 30.0%id, 0.2%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.8%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 2021228k total, 1155396k used, 865832k free, 71860k buffers
Swap: 6142972k total, 0k used, 6142972k free, 668280k cached

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Soul-Sing (soulzing) said : 		#3

Your cpu is going wilde, which proces is consuming so much cpu?
Which updates are you talking about: the cups-updates?

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Shawn A Whitbeck (shawn-a-whitbeck) said : 		#4

I'm sorry I don't know much about this stuff... and don't know where to look or what I'm even looking for. Does this help?

5462 shawn 20 0 296m 95m 21m S 90 4.8 15:08.73 skype
 1137 root 20 0 75028 35m 15m S 12 1.8 13:33.40 Xorg
 1602 shawn 20 0 159m 20m 18m R 7 1.0 3:14.56 pulseaudio
 5600 shawn 20 0 87848 12m 9.9m S 1 0.6 0:01.61 gnome-terminal
 1610 shawn 20 0 73244 24m 8404 S 1 1.3 2:08.62 compiz
 1681 shawn 20 0 73860 12m 10m S 1 0.6 0:35.98 wnck-applet
 5581 shawn 20 0 329m 59m 25m S 1 3.0 0:04.12 firefox-bin
   57 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:14.08 kondemand/1
 1696 shawn 20 0 70788 10m 8812 S 0 0.6 0:08.83 gtk-window-deco
 3954 shawn 20 0 124m 28m 15m S 0 1.5 0:07.17 ubuntu-sso-logi
    1 root 20 0 2884 1724 1240 S 0 0.1 0:00.80 init

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delance (olivier-delance) said : 		#5

Can you run command:
   kill -9 5462 # skype
and check if your PC behaves better

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Shawn A Whitbeck (shawn-a-whitbeck) said : 		#6

Okay, I killed Skype, and still acting funny. Here is the current results after killing Skype:

 1137 root 20 0 69040 33m 13m S 1 1.7 15:27.54 Xorg
 6139 shawn 20 0 88536 12m 9.9m S 1 0.6 0:00.36 gnome-terminal
    7 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:21.67 ksoftirqd/1
   57 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:18.52 kondemand/1
 1040 root 20 0 19260 4272 3572 S 0 0.2 0:02.82 NetworkManager
 3954 shawn 20 0 124m 28m 15m S 0 1.5 0:11.20 ubuntu-

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delance (olivier-delance) said : 		#7

In upper bar, right-click to add a widget: Add to Dashboard
And add monitor.
Then looks if something looks strange (CPU, Memory, ....).

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