[Gllug] Sluggishness and confusion
Jack Bertram
jack at jbertram.net
Mon Feb 7 10:00:02 UTC 2005
I recently upgraded my aging Celeron 433 to a new Winchester-core
Athlon64 3000+. I was expecting it to be absolutely lightning fast
after that, but it wasn't when I ran my previous Ubuntu i386 install.
So over the weekend I installed Hoary amd64. But it's still very
sluggish, and I can't understand why.
What do I mean? Well, when processing things (e.g., compilation) it's
pretty quick, and I notice the difference. But the system isn't
responsive in the way that my Windows XP box (Athlon 1700+) sitting next
door to it is. Firefox takes a noticeable fraction of a second to open
a new tab, gnome-terminal takes a reasonable time to launch, etc.
Am I expecting too high a standard? Is it Gnome's fault? (To give
context, when I ran fluxbox on the Celeron it was much more responsive
than Gnome is now on the Athlon64).
The only hardware component the same is the hard disk - I'm still
running on a udma4 hard disk. But I can't believe this is the
underlying reason. (I could move the root partition to another hard
disk to check, but I'd rather not)
Any comments/ideas?
jack
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