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7.10 has got very slow

Asked by mikehi

Recently Gutsy 7.10 has become very, very slow to boot and to load applications. I have no idea why and CPU usage looks quite low.

Can anyone help me make it sprint like it did before instead of ooze? It should run faster.

My machine is a desktop 1.7 GHz Intel motherboard with 1.25 GB RAM and plenty of hard drive. It is dual boot with XP and this part works just fine. XP also works just fine. Default boot is set to Ubuntu.

Thank you very much,

Mike

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#1

- To help you to view Linux system activity and to discover your performance issue

All the command below must be wrote into a terminal, give your user password when requested, then press enter :

1) - First try to check for messages and error into the /var/log/... files [ syslog messages]

gedit /var/log/syslog
gedit /var/log/messages
dmesg | less

2) - Try the easy top command line utility
To run it -> top

4) - Or the more comfortable htop
To install -> sudo apt-get install htop
To run it -> htop

3) - Try a very powerful but not so easy to use tool like sar to discover your issue
To install -> sudo apt-get install sysstat
To get usage help -> man sar
To get usage help -> man vmstat
To get usage help -> man iostat

4) try to disable unwanted startup services open System->Administration->Services

HTH

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mikehi (ehmh04) said : 		#2

Thanks elart.it. I looked at the messages and really didn't know what I was looking at -- in other words, too arcane for me. There was something about a bug with a timer and if the workaround was not needed to use a particular command, which didn't work from the terminal for me, so I'm still up the creek in a wire canoe.

In any case, why didn't this problem show up before? I have been using and updating regularly since Edgy 6.10 and Gutsy 7.10 worked just fine for a couple of weeks before it went to the laughing academy. I think what I will do is to download the installation from the Get Ubuntu link, wipe out the partition, and reload from a CD. I don't know any other way but the brute-force method. Besides, everything important is backed up.

I'll consider this solved, though it is not. Thanks much for your input.

Mike