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performance tweaks for netbook edition?

HybridSquirrel

HybridSquirrel

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I just installed 10.10 on my Aspire one, and noticed some sluggish performance. Does anyone have some tweaks that can increase performance? I have never really used ubuntu before in my life, so all of this is new to me. I installed it in hopes of learning something, and was promised better battery life. Right now I am dual booting xp and ubuntu
 
Since no one smart answered, I'll give it a shot :^D

What kind of sluggish behavior are you experiencing?
 
it just seems slow....not as fast as windows xp i have on it. granted i only have 1gb of ram, but i expected faster performance out of ubuntu. notably the web browsers are really choppy when scrolling down, as are pdf's. open office performance isn't too bad.
 
Hmm... My experience has been that Ubuntu 10.04 is roughly equal to XP as far as performance goes. Is the CPU maxing out when you do something? A quick way to check would be to add System Monitor(basically task manager) to your upper panel, and see if your CPU use goes abnormally high during the laggy periods.
 
lxskllr said:
Hmm... My experience has been that Ubuntu 10.04 is roughly equal to XP as far as performance goes. Is the CPU maxing out when you do something? A quick way to check would be to add System Monitor(basically task manager) to your upper panel, and see if your CPU use goes abnormally high during the laggy periods.
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is thast just something i can download through the software center?
 
System monitor should already be installed. I don't use Ubuntu, but I'd be shocked if it didn't already come installed.

You could however, just not use a desktop environment. 😛
 
HybridSquirrel said:
is thast just something i can download through the software center?
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No, it's already in there. Right click your upper panel, and pick "Add to panel". Scroll down through the stuff until you find "System Monitor", then add it. It'll be just like Windows tak manager when you have it minimized to the tray. You can also click the icon to get more detailed system information. It's an unscientific way of judging cpu load(as opposed to logging everything), but it'll give you a good idea of what's happen when your machine lags. If the display pegs, you have a cpu issue of some kind. If it's reasonable, you can look elsewhere for your problems.

I'm not a Linux guru by any stretch. I'm just trying to pry information from you to drill down to where the problem is. Hopefully someone more knowledgeable will chime in, but maybe we can figure it out. One of my machines is a 900mhz Celeron, and I'm running 10.04 on that. Aside from the craptastic SSD it runs as expected for a machine of it's specs. I will add that Firefox and Flash seem to run worse on Linux. There isn't much you can do about Flash, but you may prefer Opera or Chrome as a browser. I still mostly use Firefox, but if I want maximum sped, I use Chrome.
 
lxskllr said:
No, it's already in there. Right click your upper panel, and pick "Add to panel". Scroll down through the stuff until you find "System Monitor", then add it. It'll be just like Windows tak manager when you have it minimized to the tray. You can also click the icon to get more detailed system information. It's an unscientific way of judging cpu load(as opposed to logging everything), but it'll give you a good idea of what's happen when your machine lags. If the display pegs, you have a cpu issue of some kind. If it's reasonable, you can look elsewhere for your problems.

I'm not a Linux guru by any stretch. I'm just trying to pry information from you to drill down to where the problem is. Hopefully someone more knowledgeable will chime in, but maybe we can figure it out. One of my machines is a 900mhz Celeron, and I'm running 10.04 on that. Aside from the craptastic SSD it runs as expected for a machine of it's specs. I will add that Firefox and Flash seem to run worse on Linux. There isn't much you can do about Flash, but you may prefer Opera or Chrome as a browser. I still mostly use Firefox, but if I want maximum sped, I use Chrome.
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i did install chromium on it....that was one of the first things i did to it because i heard firefox ahd crappy performance...they have both been superbly crappy.

i just added that system monitor...and yeah the cpu usage spikes whenever i am online or viewing pdfs....shitty little atom cpus -_-
 
I wonder if it could be the Unity interface causing problems. I use the standard Gnome desktop, and everything works pretty well.
 
HybridSquirrel said:
whats that nad how do i disbale?
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If you disable it you'll lose the GUI since Xorg is what drives that. I was just saying that, depending on the video chipset you have there may be faster drivers available. For example, with nvidia chipsets the non-free nVidia drivers are faster than the OSS nv driver.
 
Nothinman said:
If you disable it you'll lose the GUI since Xorg is what drives that. I was just saying that, depending on the video chipset you have there may be faster drivers available. For example, with nvidia chipsets the non-free nVidia drivers are faster than the OSS nv driver.
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i have the shittiest of the shitty video chipset in there....its a tiny little netbook and im trying to squeeze every ounce of battery life i can out of it...was hoping ubuntu would help
 
Nothinman said:
I've never heard of that brand so there's nothing I can do to help.
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all it says in bios and hardware manager is "integrated video card" it has an intel chipset, im trying to find online...

edit: the official specs i found just say "intel integrated card"
 
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HybridSquirrel said:
all it says in bios and hardware manager is "integrated video card" it has an intel chipset, im trying to find online...

edit: the official specs i found just say "intel integrated card"
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What does the command 'lspci' say? Also, /var/log/Xorg.0.log should say something about the chipset too.
 
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