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The output of your free command shows no swap is used.

In other words, you have enough ram, more wouldn't help.

What you want is indeed to have the first line tell you that your ram is fully used, and the last line that no swap is used, in which case all is fine, ... output from my current machine:

$ free
		 total	   used	   free	 shared	buffers	 cached
Mem:	   4052292	3853548	 198744		  0	 255472	2575444
-/+ buffers/cache:	1022632	3029660
Swap:	 10233080		148   10232932

(Oh noes, the system ate all my ram!! )

 

Can you check if there is some disk activity? I noticed that kerry / beagle sometimes keep the disks busy, which is a major cause of slowness.

I normally run with gkrellm on the side, just to keep track of high cpu and disk loads (and temps and stuff..).

 

BTW flash can make a Athlon 2400+ stutter, from what I gather also on windows, so go complain to Adobe about that one.. ;)

 

Did you get the new version of FF? Should be in the backports repos somewhere (I'm running 2008.1 x64 on all machines now, and did get FF3 on all of them, just forgot from where I got it).

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Have you by chance done a memory check on your RAM? Depending on which memory stick is in which memory slot, if one of them has physical errors, then the PC would be spending most of it's time rearranging items in memory to keep them out of bad spots.

 

There are free utilities out there such as:

 

MemTest86

 

Give this a try before you go any further to make sure that it is not a physical problem.

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The output of your free command shows no swap is used.

In other words, you have enough ram, more wouldn't help.

What you want is indeed to have the first line tell you that your ram is fully used, and the last line that no swap is used, in which case all is fine, ... output from my current machine:

$ free
		 total	   used	   free	 shared	buffers	 cached
Mem:	   4052292	3853548	 198744		  0	 255472	2575444
-/+ buffers/cache:	1022632	3029660
Swap:	 10233080		148   10232932

(Oh noes, the system ate all my ram!! )

 

Can you check if there is some disk activity? I noticed that kerry / beagle sometimes keep the disks busy, which is a major cause of slowness.

I normally run with gkrellm on the side, just to keep track of high cpu and disk loads (and temps and stuff..).

 

BTW flash can make a Athlon 2400+ stutter, from what I gather also on windows, so go complain to Adobe about that one.. ;)

 

Did you get the new version of FF? Should be in the backports repos somewhere (I'm running 2008.1 x64 on all machines now, and did get FF3 on all of them, just forgot from where I got it).

 

Are you saying that there should be NO swap used? because my machine shows:

total used free

Swap: 3992 0 3992

 

How do I know if I have the latest FF3? I install the updates regularly so I assume that it is up to date...

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Yes he is saying if no swap is used then the system have enough RAM and doesn't need to use swap. The output you show says the system uses 0 swap.

 

I am not sure installing FF3 will solve the flash problem (or whatever problem) but it might just do this and installing the updated version of an application is the best course of action.

 

FF3 is not released as an update to FF2 in Mandriva so you need to install it from the main/backports repository. You an do this in the Mandriva control centre>s/w management>configure media sources. Next open install & remove software and install firefox 3. Don't forget to disable that repository when you are finished.

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That's not normal for your hardware IMHO. Which desktop are you running, kde or gnome? Whichever it is, try the other and see if the problem goes away. Is beagle enabled? If so disable it. Also, try running without the 3D desktop and see if the problem goes away. That might help limit down what's causing the problem.

 

I am running KDE and I will try GNOME. I have alternated between 3D and non-3D desktop and did not see a visible difference. I also tried swiftfox instead of firefox and still didn't work. Just typing in the URL bar of mozilla causes a slowdown (it does the annoying auto-complete thing). Right now mandriva is running slower than my windows laptop.. Does the monitor size has any impact on the speed (e.g. is it a problem with displaying the images on a 22-in monitor?)

 

Thanks for all the post thus far.

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Install htop and run it from terminal and see if there's anything eating up your cpu. Do you have screenlets or superkaramba running? Or something like kiba-dock?

 

 

Did that and nothing really stands out as consuming too much CPU. I think the main problem is with mozilla firefox - connection speed is slower and just typing in the URL bar causes a hiccup... I have tried swiftfox and didnt notice any change. Even my Pentium III laptop running VISTA is faster at loading pages than firefox...

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