12.04 64 bit very slow

Is it still slow if you use ubuntu 2d (at the login screen, click the ubuntu logo by your name then select unity 2d, then login as normal

Hi Anand,

my suggestion is that you buy some more ram to your computer. I think, that you should buy at least 1 GB of ram. Then are cheap and I am sure, that you will notice on your computer experience and performance with Ubuntu 12.04.

If this solved your question, please mark thread as solved.

Regards,
Miha

I suggest you run:

sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop

Then log off and use the Xubuntu desktop. It is designed to be better with lower resources and may help. Or you can use Lubuntu-desktop to go even lower :)

The system also uses an ATi mobility GPU, you may want to check that is setup ok.

Using Unity 2d did not help. My laptop is already fitted with 1GB RAM. Are you saying that is not enough? I love the Ubuntu desktop I do not want to change it. BTW how do I check if ATI mobility GPU is setup properly? Any pointers?

Can you give the output of:

sudo lshw -C display; lsb_release -a; uname -a

Thanks

Here you go!!. There seems to very heavy disk access when launching or closing applications. Even launching a simple text editor takes time. The only difference I see is that lshw has identified it as Xpress 200M whereas mine is Xpress 1150.

  *-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: RS482 [Radeon Xpress 200M]
       vendor: Hynix Semiconductor (Hyundai Electronics)
       physical id: 5
       bus info: pci@0000:01:05.0
       version: 00
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 66MHz
       capabilities: pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=radeon latency=64 mingnt=8
       resources: irq:17 memory:c0000000-c7ffffff ioport:6000(size=256) memory:d4300000-d430ffff memory:d4320000-d433ffff

Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS
Release: 12.04
Codename: precise

Linux ubuntu 3.2.0-29-generic #46-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 27 17:03:23 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Installed xubuntu & lubuntu desktops. Yes there is some improvement in the performance. However it feels like going back to 10.04 with those old style menus. I really like the Unity desktop. Is there no way to improve the performance? BTW what is the minimum h/w specs for 12.04 64 bit?

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/SystemRequirements

Well, my laptop meets more than the requirements. Instead of 512MB RAM I have 1GB. In lieu of 700MHz processor I have AMD Turion 64 bit dual core. I think that should suffice.

In the mean time I have done the following changes with no improvements. Changed swappiness from 60 to 20. Added a commit value in fstab to 1000. Increased the swap size from 256MB to 1GB.

My above question regarding how do I check if ATI mobility GPU is setup properly si still not answered

I do not know why, but when comapred to 10.04 even with desktop effects enabled, everytime I launch an application there is excessive hard disk activity. The way things are going on my hard disk wont last long. I think it has got to do with how hard disk read/write is executed.

I have created a h/w report. How do I attach this?

Okay I just upgraded my laptop to 4GB. But it is recognizing only 2885MB. Help !!!!!! About the speed its really good now but where did my other 1GB go????

If you run the memtest from Grub, does it show all the RAM?
What is the maximum RAM for your motherboard?

It shows 2885MB. The motherboard supports 4GB (2x2GB). The funny thing is my Windows XP 32 bit detects the full 4GB physical memory with PAE mode enabled.

Hold on, I do not have a memtest on the Grub menu. I booted into recovery mode & clicked on the system information. Is that sufficient?

If you run:

dpkg -l | grep memtest

What is output?

Below is output of lshw
*-memory
          description: System Memory
          physical id: a
          slot: System board or motherboard
          size: 4GiB
        *-bank:0
             description: SODIMM DDR2 Synchronous 667 MHz (1.5 ns)
             product: JM667QSU-2G
             vendor: 7F4F000000000000
             physical id: 0
             serial: 000974F2
             slot: DIMM #1
             size: 2GiB
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 667MHz (1.5ns)
        *-bank:1
             description: SODIMM DDR2 Synchronous 667 MHz (1.5 ns)
             product: JM667QSU-2G
             vendor: 7F4F000000000000
             physical id: 1
             serial: 000974F2
             slot: DIMM #2
             size: 2GiB
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 667MHz (1.5ns)

All I can suggest is report a bug, make sure yu have the latest BIOS

OK there was already a bug reported way bay in 2010.