...and pages loading slow as well in FF/Gnome.

Seemed like it was slowing menu (rt click) pop-ups of late, so I deleted the history library. Related at all to networking speed?

64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=2623 ttl=127 time=9.05 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=2624 ttl=127 time=7.80 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=2625 ttl=127 time=7.94 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=2626 ttl=127 time=3.64 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=2627 ttl=127 time=6.61 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=2628 ttl=127 time=7.66 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=2629 ttl=127 time=17.9 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=2630 ttl=127 time=2.84 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=2631 ttl=127 time=3.48 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=2632 ttl=127 time=2.35 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=2633 ttl=127 time=28.6 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=2634 ttl=127 time=8.98 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=2635 ttl=127 time=4.84 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=2636 ttl=127 time=5.15 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=2637 ttl=127 time=2.03 ms

This is an AMD Turion 64 x2 cpu, not exactly a slow cpu...

Any ideas? What kind of 'stuff' accumulates in Ubuntu, that needs cleaning out?

You are talking about a wireless network, right?

For wireless networks, these ping times are normal.
It takes longer than wired networks because everytime your laptop needs to "ask permission" to send before sending.

Now I'm getting instances of 'Ping: sendmsg No buffer space available'.


ping: sendmsg: No buffer space available
ping: sendmsg: No buffer space available
ping: sendmsg: No buffer space available
ping: sendmsg: No buffer space available
ping: sendmsg: No buffer space available
ping: sendmsg: No buffer space available

Nothing has changed on this laptop (except regular Hardy 8.04 updates) for the last 2 1/2 years.

HP dv9428 AMD Turion64 x2, 2G ramsticks.

Anybody?

Is the hardware breaking? Is there 'data clutter' that needs cleaning out? I just deleted browser History Library...

I'm on another machine now.

I went back to the HP laptop, and it is frozen, blinking caps lock. CLI interface window is frozen in 'no bufferspace available'. No mouse response, touchpad response, cannot restart X-server (CTL + ALT + BCKSP).

Anybody?

Ok, can you please, tell us how many tasks or processes work under user when you just start linux? and what are they?

Hi Nim...

This time, it was frozen, and I could not bring up the process monitor. I've looked before, when it began to slow down page loading, and nothing stood out at all, that was eating up all cpu power.

When it started slowing, I had only 2 pages open - no youtube stuff, no heavy usage stuff. I opened the cli to ping, minimized it, opened another page, and left the machine for another. Came back, it was locked.

Did you see this machine specs? A few windows won't lock it up. I have malware, or some browsing clutter that needs cleaning.

I'm clueless here...

Can you reboot your computer and when do "top" in terminal, better under root terminal.
What are the first 10 lines?

When do not start ANY programs do ping 192.168.0.1.