10.10 running slow

Ext4 which is default in Ubuntu does NOT get fragmented. It has a journal. Ext2 can get fragnmented but your OS will not have used this if you have used default settings.

Can you give the output of:

uname -a; lsb_release -a; free -m

Can you also give the make and model of netbook, you haven't told us and its quite important.....

output:

mmary@mary-HP-Mini-210-1000:~$ uname -a
Linux mary-HP-Mini-210-1000 2.6.35-25-generic #44-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 21 17:40:48 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux
mary@mary-HP-Mini-210-1000:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 10.10
Release: 10.10
Codename: maverick
mary@mary-HP-Mini-210-1000:~$ free -m
             total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 990 952 38 0 22 310
-/+ buffers/cache: 619 371
Swap: 2408 236 2172

I have an HP Mini 210. I've only had it since late November.

ok so you have 1Gb RAM but you are onlyusing 371Mb currently. So the web is running slow you say. Can you give the output of:

sudo lshw -C network

Thanks

  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 02
       serial: c8:0a:a9:79:fd:1d
       size: 10MB/s
       capacity: 100MB/s
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=half latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=MII speed=10MB/s
       resources: irq:42 ioport:5000(size=256) memory:50010000-50010fff memory:50000000-5000ffff memory:50020000-5002ffff
  *-network
       description: Wireless interface
       product: BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY
       vendor: Broadcom Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
       logical name: eth1
       version: 01
       serial: f0:7b:cb:29:e2:a5
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=wl0 driverversion=5.60.48.36 ip=192.168.1.3 latency=0 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg
       resources: irq:17 memory:56000000-56003fff

I talked to HP to see what I could do, but they pretty much told me I was out of luck because I'm running an OS they didn't install in it.

ok try:

gksudo gedit /etc/default/grub

Change:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
To:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash ipv6.disable=1"

Save the new file, close gedit and run:

sudo update-grub

Also try:

gksudo gedit /etc/sysctl.conf

add this text:

net.core.rmem_default = 524288
net.core.rmem_max = 524288
net.core.wmem_default = 524288
net.core.wmem_max = 524288
net.ipv4.tcp_wmem = 4096 87380 524288
net.ipv4.tcp_rmem = 4096 87380 524288
net.ipv4.tcp_mem = 524288 524288 524288
net.ipv4.tcp_rfc1337 = 1
net.ipv4.ip_no_pmtu_disc = 0
net.ipv4.tcp_sack = 1
net.ipv4.tcp_fack = 1
net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling = 1
net.ipv4.tcp_timestamps = 1
net.ipv4.tcp_ecn = 0
net.ipv4.route.flush = 1
vm.swappiness = 0

Save the new file and now reboot, is it any better?

Seems to be working fine now. Thank you soooo much! You're totally my hero today!

Glad it worked :)