johnd Posted May 23, 2009 Report Share Posted May 23, 2009 Hi I recently did a clean install of 2009.1 from DVD (I initially did an upgrade but was not happy with the result). My system seems quite slow at times. This is especially so when: 1. I use Dolphin to navigate a very large directory. 2. I try browsing up and down inside a large OpenOffice Writer file. At times the system almost grinds to a halt. My system is a little old - but should (I feel) be responding better than this - it was on 2009.0). System = Celeron 2.5GHz with 1G RAM. Any thoughts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverSurfer60 Posted May 23, 2009 Report Share Posted May 23, 2009 Does your graphics card use shared memory? I know you state 1gig of ram but if you have a few apps running graphics it may slow you down a bit. Also is all of your ram being recognised? This problem does point to a ram problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnd Posted May 23, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 23, 2009 Does your graphics card use shared memory? I know you state 1gig of ram but if you have a few apps running graphics it may slow you down a bit. Also is all of your ram being recognised? This problem does point to a ram problem. A very reliable old system unit - nothing has changed except adding in 2009.1. There is shared video RAM - but not been a problem before. MemTotal: 1025132 kB MemFree: 56720 kB Buffers: 80696 kB Cached: 351428 kB SwapCached: 4516 kB Active: 397988 kB Inactive: 434340 kB Active(anon): 160560 kB Inactive(anon): 241816 kB Active(file): 237428 kB Inactive(file): 192524 kB Unevictable: 0 kB Mlocked: 0 kB HighTotal: 130312 kB HighFree: 588 kB LowTotal: 894820 kB LowFree: 56132 kB SwapTotal: 1220900 kB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted May 23, 2009 Report Share Posted May 23, 2009 Do you use ext4 as filesystem? cat /etc/fstab Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnd Posted May 23, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 23, 2009 Do you use ext4 as filesystem? No - stuck with ext3 in the mean time. Reused my old /home partition so as not to loose my data. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted May 23, 2009 Report Share Posted May 23, 2009 I see... Does it help if you disable the KDE4 search index engine? (Nepomuk/ Strigi). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnd Posted May 24, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 24, 2009 I see...Does it help if you disable the KDE4 search index engine? (Nepomuk/ Strigi). Have had a look - but not sure where to do this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnd Posted May 24, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 24, 2009 I have just noticed that my CMOS settings for shared video were set to 64MBytes. I have upped this to 128MBytes. Anyone know what the sensible minimum for KDE4.2 is? Results are inconclusive so far - may be a bit faster? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted May 24, 2009 Report Share Posted May 24, 2009 Have had a look - but not sure where to do this? alt+F2, "systemsettings" Pick the "advanced" tab, "desktop search", "basic settings", untick both boxes if ticked in. Now logout/log back in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnd Posted May 25, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 25, 2009 alt+F2, "systemsettings"Pick the "advanced" tab, "desktop search", "basic settings", untick both boxes if ticked in. Now logout/log back in. Thanks - should have spotted these settings without asking where. ... but both were unticked already. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnd Posted May 25, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 25, 2009 (edited) Doubling the video RAM does not seem to have made any noticeable difference. Giving the system a trial with msec turned off. Edited May 25, 2009 by johnd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnd Posted May 30, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 30, 2009 Well I have solved this one by rather a drastic step - since 1998 I have been a RedHat derivative user (RedHat, Fedora, SuSE, Mandrake, PCLOS and Mandriva). I am not really happy with KDE4 so made a decision to try Ubuntu. My system is a little faster - and I had forgotten the simple beauty of GNOME. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted May 30, 2009 Report Share Posted May 30, 2009 Fair enough. You are not the first person to be unhappy with KDE4. Hopefully in time KDE4 will mature. Meanwhile, I am staying with Mandriva 2008.1 and KDE 3.5.9........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted May 30, 2009 Report Share Posted May 30, 2009 I really doubt if you will see any speed gains that way. Ubuntu is rather slow compared to Mandy, and Nautilus is the slowest filemanager out there, by a huge margin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demonseth17 Posted May 31, 2009 Report Share Posted May 31, 2009 yea...mandi Gnome is cool! and faster than ubuntu's....he could also try mandi LXDE...or xfce...they are very fast and stable...(My experience tells me that)...hope you've solved your problems..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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