[Gllug] Sluggishness and confusion

[Jack Bertram]

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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