Hi, i am using Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake and so far my only problem is this:

When boot in Ubuntu everything seems to work ok for the first minutes but later the speed seems to get slower. I mean when i try open and close windows, programs even taps in mozilla are slow (especially when you to do it fast(open and close). I don't know what is wrong i have many distribution, some of them it did some of them not. It is not very very slow, it as slow as it has to break you patience. I mean even windows look pretty fast when you open and close windows. What should? Any help would be really appreciated cause i don't want to change back to windows or make formats. Thanks!

Hi there,
Have you tried if there is a certain process that gets stuck in the background? This can be done by running "top" in the terminal.

How much memory to you have free? Check using the "free" program using terminal. How much harddrive space do you have? Check using "df -h" in terminal.

Have you checked the logs? Especially "/var/syslog"...? Also check "dmesg". If you have a hardware error it usually shows up there.

If you don't have anything better to do I'd also recomment you to do a fsck on your harddrive aswell.

Regards,

Jens

Run "top". It will show you CPU and memory statistics. See if these are constrained.

If not it may be your network connection. If you are doing a 100 base T ethernet a common issue is setting the card (or the switch/router port it is attached to) to autonegotiate. Unfortunately this works rather badly for 10/100 networks. You should hard set the speed to 100, duplex to full and turn autonegotiate off on both the card and the port.

The command that will set this for the NIC (network interface card) is ethtool (or miitool for older NICs).

Here is what i get when i run "top" and "free" :

top - 10:19:52 up 13:17, 2 users, load average: 0.27, 0.62, 0.33
Tasks: 106 total, 1 running, 105 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 5.0% us, 0.7% sy, 0.0% ni, 93.0% id, 1.3% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si
Mem: 1036100k total, 1025740k used, 10360k free, 26268k buffers
Swap: 2096440k total, 18944k used, 2077496k free, 693200k cached

4745 root 15 0 172m 28m 8508 S 2.7 2.8 5:05.67 Xorg
7452 johnny 15 0 347m 101m 28m S 2.0 10.0 10:51.31 java
4995 johnny 15 0 125m 60m 18m S 0.3 6.0 1:03.31 firefox-bin
1 root 16 0 1568 528 460 S 0.0 0.1 0:01.10 init
2 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 ksoftirqd/0
3 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0
4 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.08 events/0
5 root 11 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper
6 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthread
8 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.13 kblockd/0
9 root 20 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid
129 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 pdflush
130 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 pdflush
132 root 16 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0
131 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.90 kswapd0
719 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 kseriod
1821 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khubd
johnny@johnny-desktop:~$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1036100 1021620 14480 0 25996 689124
-/+ buffers/cache: 306500 729600
Swap: 2096440 18944 2077496

I think it's a memory problem right? But i don't have many programs open and i also don't think that 1024 mb ram can be fulfield that easy. Moreover, is there any possibility to be graphic card problem cause i didn't install any drivers and when i checked with a program (cedega) it hit red in openGL and 3d acceleration. What should i do?

RAM in Linux worksdifferent from Windoze... Don't worry about the RAM amount being used...

The more likely problem is that you probably have a lot of glitzy video stuff (like transparancies) turned on... Try not using the transparancies and shadows, launch feedback, etc... and see if that helps...

What is transparencies? What is feedback? How can i launch it? Please help!