Old pc faster than recent

[sebastien]

OK, so another more accurate information.

1. On the celeron laptop Ive lauched OO word processor :
* disabling acpid and apmd daemons (laptop energy management):
... in 18 seconds
* acpid and apmd enabled :
... 22seconds.
(inbetween I of course disconnected the session)

2. On my 7 years old pentium 733 :
 15 seconds !!!

ARGH...

On Thu, 14 Dec 2006
22:22:20 +0100 sebastien <scamot2004 at gmx.at> wrote:

> Thanks everyone !
> What a disappointment to have a 1 year old laptop
> slower than an old 7 years old desktop... That reminds me : At which
> point does the society of consumption does really benefit us ? ? Sure
> those 2 products are different, but 7 years is a lot for computers...
> 
> note : on the laptop, W2K is pretty much faster than ubuntu 6.10 for
> the same kind of applications (I cannot compare to my desktop- it
> only runs ubuntu, so grrrrrrrreat I must say). 
> 
> Regarding the problem and to answer to your questions :
> 
> Yes, DMA was activated. 
> 
> Number of services on the laptop running 6.10 : that's a fact : a very
> high amount of services is listed : a  majority is checked (14
> daemons), and some not. Which ones can I safely deactivate to
> improve ?
> 
> buscom sys (checked)
> klogd (checked)
> syslogd (checked)
> britty (unchecked)
> acpid (checked)
> apmd (checked) 
> bluetooth (unchecked)
> alsa-utils (unchecked)
> hotkey-set (checked)
> gdm (checked)
> powernowd (checked) 
> rpc portmap (unchecked)
> screen (unchecked)
> hdparm (unchecked)
> anacron (unchecked)
> nfs-kernel-server (checked)
> samba (checked)
> DNS avahi-daemon (checked)
> cupsys (checked)
> hplip (checked)
> festival (unchecked)
> bug apport (checked)
> 
> On my LTS desktop (all services are checked) : 8 services only.
> 
> klogd
> sysklogd
> gdm
> mysql
> apache2
> samba
> nfs server
> cupsys
> 
> I shall try XFCE on the laptop, in order to get a faster ubuntu, if
> disabling more daemons do not enhance the performance.
> 
> On my desktop, Ive noticed that the LTS version is now faster than the
> last version 5.10 was.
> 
> sc
> 
>  On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:36:07 -0800
> petevg at gmail.com wrote:
> 
> > On 12/14/06, sebastien <scamot2004 at gmx.at> wrote:
> > > I wonder why ubuntu 6.10 uses Swap memory, on this laptop
> > > while no application is running ? And is it slow because it uses
> > > this swap memory ?
> > 
> > Celeron processors are really watered down compared to Pentiums, and
> > the laptop has less RAM, further reducing its probable performance
> > relative to the desktop.
> > 
> > As for the swap used ... the laptop's probably running battery
> > management software and the like in the background -- that might be
> > where the stuff dumped to swap is coming from.
> > 
>