Ubuntu is so slow

[Rich Rudnick]

OOzy Pal wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 8:23 AM, scott <redhowlingwolves at nc.rr.com> wrote:
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>>  OOzy Pal wrote:
>>  > On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 12:31 PM, Guillaume <silencer at free-4ever.net> wrote:
>>  >>  > I checked tracker pref and disabled indexing and watching but still no
>>  >>  > help. Quanta take and good 60seconds; really, annoying.
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>>  >>  What does the "top -d1" show ???
>>  >>  process runing 100% cpu ?
>>  >>  big load average ?
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>>  It is beginning to look like a motherboard problem, to me.
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>>  Run a memtest on it and see what happens.
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>>   It could be a heat issue, also. When is the last time the inside of the
>>  box was cleaned? Dust prevents air from taking heat off the surfaces
>>  that need cooling, kind of an insulating blanket.
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>>  Try that.
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> 
> Wow, very rich and excellent ideas and recommendations. I really
> appreciate all your answers. Thank you all so much.
> 
> The problem was solved by adding
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> 192.168.1.2 laptop
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> to /etc/hosts.
> 
> It was hostname problem.
> 

192.168.1.2 will only work while you have a network up; if for any 
reason it goes down you will get the same problem. you should use

127.0.1.1 laptop

instead.