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hi,
I installed ubuntu 9.1 last night , it runs slow if I open a box or menu but specially when I try
to open a website. I am running epiphany web browser. It will work even slower if I use firefox. I am using an HP laptop which runs fine with windows XP. I will aprecciate your help.
The first think I'd check is to see if the hard disk light is flashing while the computer is running slowly; if it is then it could indicate that the computer is swapping, which can cause slowness.
We need to find out why the computer is slow: it could be a RAM or CPU problem, or some program you don't need that's gobbling up your resources.
Can you please open the file /proc/meminfo and copy and paste it into this thread?
Can you also open a terminal and type "top -n 1", then select the text and paste that as well?
Hmmm this is strange... Epiphany is taking up 145MB of ram, but the rest of your system seems fine... 85% idle time.
Would you mind posting the output of those two commands again, but running firefox instead of Epiphany
Also, you could try the venerable Opera browser and see what performance
you get with that.
Another thing (lol) is your AMD 64 bit or 32 bit? because if youre running 32 bit on 64 it *COULD* slow thnigs down diabolically, but i dont know for sure (can someone back me up or correct me please)
# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts
humberto@humberto-laptop:~$
I tried with Opera and it works even worse than epiphany
This laptop has an AMD turion 64x 2 CPU and if it runs like a champ in windows I reckon it should work even better with ubuntu.
And it looks like you still have IPv6 enabled. This can waste a lot of time as it waits for the IPv6 connection to time out before trying IPv4 (which, generally, it should have used in the first place).
To disable IPv6:
Open the file /etc/modprobe.d/aliases and scroll down to this bit.
Code:
# alias net-pf-10 ipv6 disable ipv6
alias net-pf-10 off
alias ipv6 off
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