sluggish performance Jaunty

[Gary Kirkpatrick]

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Matthew Flaschen <
matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu> wrote:

> Gary Kirkpatrick wrote:
> > Since I installed Intrepid and now continuing with Jaunty, I find my Dell
> > 600 m to be performing rather sluggisly.  For example, Open Office goes
> into
> > slow mo loading, and also opening files, specifically when you click to
> open
> > a file, the OO screen darkens and about a minute later returns to normal
> and
> > then lists files.  Same problem with GIMP.  In FF, if you click to attach
> a
> > file in yahoo or google, same problem.
> >
> >
> > The 600 m has an ati 9200 video card.  I have about 5 gigs space on the
> > ubuntu portion of the disk.  The machine has 375 megs of memory, 1.4 m
> > processor.
>
> Your only real problem is the 375 MB of physical RAM.  That's just very
> hard to work with.  I'm running Hardy with 1 GB, and I find that slow
> sometimes.  I'm a bit surprised you were happy with Hardy on 375 MB.
>
> My advice for Jaunty would just be to be very careful about how many
> programs you run simultaneously.  Uninstall or disable anything you
> don't need.  You might consider switching to XFCE or another smaller
> desktop.
>
> Matt Flaschen
>
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XFCE does work better.  Thanks!
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