Ubuntu 11.10, upgrade from 11.04, is slow...

Hi, can you please show us the results of the following commands typed into a terminal

free && df && sudo lshw -c cpu

Chris

bhoo@bhoo-Inspiron-1011:~$ free && df && sudo lshw-c cpu
             total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1016768 857796 158972 0 48668 491612
-/+ buffers/cache: 317516 699252
Swap: 386044 0 386044
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 7319480 3790376 3157292 55% /
udev 501384 4 501380 1% /dev
tmpfs 203356 996 202360 1% /run
none 5120 0 5120 0% /run/lock
none 508384 116 508268 1% /run/shm
[sudo] password for bhoo:

You didn't type in your password for the sudo command, so it doesn't show what CPU is in your machine. If you want to try again, just use the command

sudo lshw -c cpu

and type in your password when prompted.

You have 1GB of memory, and only 1/3 of that is being used - the swap partition is not being used at all. There is no problem with memory.

It looks like you have an 8GB SSD with the / partition being about 7.3GB which is currently just over half full. You'll have to be careful not fill up the hard drive or your system won't be able to operate properly, but there is currently no problem that would cause the machine to run slowly.

I'll reserve any comments until I know what CPU you have in that machine. Can you tell me what things run slowly?

Chris

all applications take time to open and my passsword does not work when promrted for sudo lshw -c cpu .

change your password:

passwd username

(change username to your actual user name)

Does the sudo command work now?

Chris

bhoo@bhoo-Inspiron-1011:~$ passwd bhoo
Enter new UNIX password:
Retype new UNIX password:
passwd: password updated successfully
bhoo@bhoo-Inspiron-1011:~$ sudo lshw -c cpu
[sudo] password for bhoo:
bhoo is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
bhoo@bhoo-Inspiron-1011:~$
 now what i have to do Chris?