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Everything seems sluggish

Are there any tweaks I can do to speed up my machine? Everything seems to be running sluggish. I open xterm with at least a 1 second delay. Or when I switch tabs in a browser. I'm running Ubuntu 11.04

Here's a list of my top

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top - 09:30:02 up 7 days, 18:14,  9 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.04, 0.05

Tasks: 158 total,  2 running, 156 sleeping,  0 stopped,  0 zombie

Cpu(s): 10.3%us, 15.7%sy,  0.0%ni, 74.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st

Mem:  3992128k total,  2548536k used,  1443592k free,  237528k buffers

Swap:        0k total,        0k used,        0k free,  1000232k cached



  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND          

21063 jason    20  0  733m 369m  23m R  30  9.5 404:20.57 opera            

21211 jason    20  0  236m  79m  17m S  14  2.0 193:37.17 operapluginwrap  

 4597 jason    20  0  877m 112m  31m S    2  2.9  59:16.38 thunderbird-bin  

 1228 root      20  0  382m 153m  17m S    1  3.9 298:30.93 Xorg              

 4042 jason    20  0  289m 4980 3776 S    1  0.1 125:39.95 conky            

 4057 jason    20  0  291m 5304 3912 S    1  0.1 115:57.46 conky            

21708 jason    20  0  681m  44m  21m S    1  1.1  1:48.90 pidgin            

 1497 jason    20  0 1108m 238m  38m S    1  6.1 185:04.31 firefox-bin      

24335 jason    20  0 19352 1332  940 R    1  0.0  0:00.11 top              

 4165 jason    20  0  299m 5244 3940 S    0  0.1  50:49.91 conky            

    1 root      20  0 24136 2244 1292 S    0  0.1  0:01.52 init              

    2 root      20  0    0    0    0 S    0  0.0  0:00.26 kthreadd          

    3 root      20  0    0    0    0 S    0  0.0  1:19.75 ksoftirqd/0      

    6 root      RT  0    0    0    0 S    0  0.0  0:00.00 migration/0      

    7 root      RT  0    0    0    0 S    0  0.0  0:00.00 migration/1      

    9 root      20  0    0    0    0 S    0  0.0  1:22.69 ksoftirqd/1      

  11 root      0 -20    0    0    0 S    0  0.0  0:00.00 cpuset            

  12 root      0 -20    0    0    0 S    0  0.0  0:00.00 khelper

beside running lite programs like Midori browser you can speed up your Ubuntu with these tips.

I recommend telling us about your hardware (CPU, RAM, video card, storage, etc.) if you want more than an educated guess. ;)

Based on the 'top' output Opera is using the most CPU, have you tried another browser such as: Firefox, Chrome, Epiphany, Midori ?

Have you experimented with a lightweight desktop environment/windows manager such as: Xfce, LXDE, IceWM, Fluxbox ?

Does my memory usage seem that high?

free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 3898 2552 1345 0 231 1032
-/+ buffers/cache: 1288 2610
Swap: 0 0 0

Your RAM looks fine, please answer the questions in my post #3 if you require additional assistance.

http://www.linuxatemyram.com/

Sorry. I didn't even see the post.

I'm using both Opera and Firefox.
And I'm also already running Fluxbox

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AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+



Filesystem            Size  Used  Avail Use% Mounted on

/dev/sda1              114G  5.0G  104G  5% /



VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C61 [GeForce 6150SE nForce 430] (rev a2)

VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV44 [GeForce 6200 TurboCache(TM)] (rev a1)

I'm running dual monitors hence the two video cards.

I'm not an nvidia expert, but I've heard that using the correct drivers can make a big difference in the perceived "snappiness" of the system. Here is an introductory how-to: http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/nvidia

Obviously your computer is fast and modern; properly-configured Linux should fly on your hardware. :)

Quote:

Originally Posted by snowpine (Post 4546083)

My thoughts exactly! Is there any way of doing that in fluxbox?

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Originally Posted by fetal (Post 4546096)

My thoughts exactly! Is there any way of doing that in fluxbox?

The application in the screenshots is called jockey-gtk.

Since I am not an nvidia expert I will just give you a link to the documentation:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Bi...erHowto/Nvidia
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/NvidiaManual

This could also explain why when I run xcompmgr My machine basically dies. Now I'm stuck with the problem "This driver is activated but not currently in use" issue.