Re: [ubuntu-uk] Feeling tortured by Ubuntu

2011-10-20 Thread Kris Douglas
On 20 October 2011 12:52, paul sutton wrote: > > > In my humble experience running 100 tabs in any browser for an extended > period of time can lead to slow response times for your browser.  If you go > to a lot of flash sites (hard to avoid) with Chrome / Chromium then that's a > lot of flash plu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Feeling tortured by Ubuntu

2011-10-20 Thread John Stevenson
On 20 October 2011 12:52, paul sutton wrote: > ** > > In my humble experience running 100 tabs in any browser for an extended > period of time can lead to slow response times for your browser. If you go > to a lot of flash sites (hard to avoid) with Chrome / Chromium then that's a > lot of flas

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Feeling tortured by Ubuntu

2011-10-20 Thread paul sutton
> > In my humble experience running 100 tabs in any browser for an > extended period of time can lead to slow response times for your > browser. If you go to a lot of flash sites (hard to avoid) with > Chrome / Chromium then that's a lot of flash plugin that can leak > memory and potentially caus

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Feeling tortured by Ubuntu

2011-10-20 Thread John Stevenson
On 20 October 2011 11:33, Kris Douglas wrote: > Hello, I am coming back to post my findings, I have been experiencing > this problem with the last two releases of Ubuntu. > > Currently Compiz is using 247MB of RAM, which is a lot, but as a > percentage of my current system RAM, it's negligible. >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Feeling tortured by Ubuntu

2011-10-20 Thread Kris Douglas
On 18 October 2011 14:37, Colin Law wrote: > Can you clarify that, do you mean that you saw the same issue on an > earlier version of Ubuntu?  Your first post gave the impression this > was a new problem. Hello, I am coming back to post my findings, I have been experiencing this problem with the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Feeling tortured by Ubuntu

2011-10-18 Thread Bea Groves
Hi! I would be very surprised if this is not a problem with graphics card compatibility, and perhaps a shortage of RAM (and maybe too small a swap partition?). Just a thought... I installed 11.10 on an old Pentium 4 laptop last night with only 512Mb RAM. Worked fine, if sluggishly, and shows how

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Feeling tortured by Ubuntu

2011-10-18 Thread Colin Law
On 18 October 2011 13:31, Kris Douglas wrote: > On 18 October 2011 13:08, Simon Greenwood wrote: >> >> >> On 18 October 2011 12:49, Kris Douglas wrote: >>> >>> Hello, I use Ubuntu in the workplace, I am having a problem with it at >>> the moment that is beginning to drive me a bit mad. >>> >>> I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Feeling tortured by Ubuntu

2011-10-18 Thread Colin Law
On 18 October 2011 14:18, alan c wrote: > On 18/10/11 12:49, Kris Douglas wrote: >> Hello, I use Ubuntu in the workplace, I am having a problem with it at >> the moment that is beginning to drive me a bit mad. >> >> I have upgraded to the latest version this week, and I am seeing >> graphical arte

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Feeling tortured by Ubuntu

2011-10-18 Thread alan c
On 18/10/11 12:49, Kris Douglas wrote: > Hello, I use Ubuntu in the workplace, I am having a problem with it at > the moment that is beginning to drive me a bit mad. > > I have upgraded to the latest version this week, and I am seeing > graphical artefacts every so often, which is new, but they do

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Feeling tortured by Ubuntu

2011-10-18 Thread Dave Morley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18/10/11 13:36, Kris Douglas wrote: > Are there known problems with severe slowdowns with the PAE Kern? > > If that's a pretty good contender to being the problem I will wipe > the machine in a heartbeat. > > Sent from my Desire HD running CM7 On

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Feeling tortured by Ubuntu

2011-10-18 Thread Kris Douglas
Are there known problems with severe slowdowns with the PAE Kern? If that's a pretty good contender to being the problem I will wipe the machine in a heartbeat. Sent from my Desire HD running CM7 On Oct 18, 2011 1:33 PM, "Dave Morley" wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Feeling tortured by Ubuntu

2011-10-18 Thread Dave Morley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18/10/11 13:31, Kris Douglas wrote: > On 18 October 2011 13:08, Simon Greenwood > wrote: >> >> >> On 18 October 2011 12:49, Kris Douglas >> wrote: >>> >>> Hello, I use Ubuntu in the workplace, I am having a problem >>> with it at the moment tha

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Feeling tortured by Ubuntu

2011-10-18 Thread Kris Douglas
On 18 October 2011 13:08, Simon Greenwood wrote: > > > On 18 October 2011 12:49, Kris Douglas wrote: >> >> Hello, I use Ubuntu in the workplace, I am having a problem with it at >> the moment that is beginning to drive me a bit mad. >> >> I have upgraded to the latest version this week, and I am

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Feeling tortured by Ubuntu

2011-10-18 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 18 October 2011 12:49, Kris Douglas wrote: > Hello, I use Ubuntu in the workplace, I am having a problem with it at > the moment that is beginning to drive me a bit mad. > > I have upgraded to the latest version this week, and I am seeing > graphical artefacts every so often, which is new, but

[ubuntu-uk] Feeling tortured by Ubuntu

2011-10-18 Thread Kris Douglas
Hello, I use Ubuntu in the workplace, I am having a problem with it at the moment that is beginning to drive me a bit mad. I have upgraded to the latest version this week, and I am seeing graphical artefacts every so often, which is new, but they do go away after I have logged in. The worst proble