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Poor response time opening filesystems

Asked by Jeff Vautour

Dell Mini 9
2GB RAM
1.6 Ghz dual core
32Gb SSD hard drive
Ubuntu 10.10
I keep this machine updated on a weekly basis...

When I open the file-system app or double-click to enter in another directory - it seems to take forever... However this is the only thing that is slow on my mini... I figured with the SSD drive that access times would be pretty decent - Just wondering if anyone else has observed this behavior on a similar machine and if they have found something which helps disk access times..

Thanks
Jeff

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olivier.brisson (olivier-brisson) said : 		#1

It could be interesting for the record to benchmark your fs with a program like Bonnie++ (http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/) and to post the result here.

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delance (olivier-delance) said : 		#2

Are you using desktop or netbook version of Ubuntu?

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Jeff Vautour (jeff-vautour) said : 		#3

Hi - Its the netbook version of Ubuntu - Tonight I will try the Bonnie++ app tonight and report the stats..

Cheers,
Jeff

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delance (olivier-delance) said : 		#4

I also find that Netbook edition is slow. I'm trying Beta2 of Natty, and interface seems more reactive.

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Best mycae (mycae) said : 		#5

Cheap SSDs have really bad write speeds. I have one :( Expensive SSDs have good write speeds. It depends how much the company paid for the media.

I found XFCE gave reasonable response rates even in this case. Gnome was far too slow, and KDE doesn't fit on my SSD.

I also had to put firefox's home folder on a ramdrive (tmpfs), then flush the ramdrive to the SSD on shutdown. Firefox doesn't *like* this, but it works.

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Jeff Vautour (jeff-vautour) said : 		#6

Thanks mycae, that solved my question.