Re: [SLUG] Distro for fast web browsing on old machine.
quote who=Ben Looking for a distro that does web browsing really well with the following specs (or a way to make Ubuntu behave). I have a Celeron ~1.6GHz machine, 512MiB RAM, 80GB HDD. Ubuntu 8.04 and now 8.10 both grind almost to a halt when Firefox is running. (I think 8.10 is actually worse). There is plenty of free memory - 200+ Happens with one window open or with many. Other browsers are no better - tried Opera, same issues. CPU just hits 100% and just grinds away. Is it Firefox or X chugging on the CPU (check top)? What kind of video card and driver are you using? Firefox should be fine on a slowish machine with lots of RAM (512MB is fine). - Jeff -- OSDC 2008: Sydney, Australiahttp://www.osdc.com.au/2008/ If you want to start a debate on a subject, however, all that seems to be necessary is to involve perennial target Richard Gooch. - LWN -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Distro for fast web browsing on old machine.
Looking for a distro that does web browsing really well with the following specs (or a way to make Ubuntu behave). I have a Celeron ~1.6GHz machine, 512MiB RAM, 80GB HDD. Ubuntu 8.04 and now 8.10 both grind almost to a halt when Firefox is running. (I think 8.10 is actually worse). There is plenty of free memory - 200+ Happens with one window open or with many. Other browsers are no better - tried Opera, same issues. CPU just hits 100% and just grinds away. Cheers, Ben -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Distro for fast web browsing on old machine.
It would be helpful to know more about what's causing the problems with the distros you've tried. Is it a runaway processing chewing CPU? Is it the browser itself chewing CPU? How is the RAM situation - is it full (and consequently spending a lot of time swapping)? If it is - how much is free before you start Firefox? How much is Firefox using? A tool like sar will help a lot with this kind of analysis - but just keeping a window open running top can give you a good idea as well. On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 12:42 AM, Ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looking for a distro that does web browsing really well with the following specs (or a way to make Ubuntu behave). I have a Celeron ~1.6GHz machine, 512MiB RAM, 80GB HDD. Ubuntu 8.04 and now 8.10 both grind almost to a halt when Firefox is running. (I think 8.10 is actually worse). There is plenty of free memory - 200+ Happens with one window open or with many. Other browsers are no better - tried Opera, same issues. CPU just hits 100% and just grinds away. Cheers, Ben -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Distro for fast web browsing on old machine.
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 3:28 AM, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it Firefox or X chugging on the CPU (check top)? Ahh, It's Xorg. and in the case of Opera, the problem doesn't seem to be occurring in 8.10 - although I don't think it has Flash setup... What kind of video card and driver are you using? Intel 88245G intergrated - with the default driver. Originally it ran with desktop effects on, which I disabled. After upgrading to 8.10 I am no longer able to re-enable them. Firefox should be fine on a slowish machine with lots of RAM (512MB is fine). Xorg is at about 90M with only another 30 odd to other stuff. Firefrox Load yahoo.com.au: Firefox = ~150M and Xorg is ~130 Firefox @ 40% CPU, Xorg at about 60% - the weird thing is they stay at roughly these levels, even though I'm not scrolling pages etc. Opera Load yahoo.com.au: Opera = ~30M, Xorg = ~95 Opera @40% when active, 5% when idle. Xorg at 5-20%. As mentioned flash isn't installed. Maybe I should try swiftfox, or just get flash working on Opera? - Jeff -- OSDC 2008: Sydney, Australiahttp://www.osdc.com.au/2008/ If you want to start a debate on a subject, however, all that seems to be necessary is to involve perennial target Richard Gooch. - LWN -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Problem with TAR gunzip
Hi Peter, Basically, Is there anyway to recover those gzip files? or do you think we can ignore that corrupted block and extract rest of the file? Thanks in advance, Hasnain On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 7:32 AM, Peter Chubb [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Hasnain == Hasnain [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hasnain Hi Everyone, i was having a bit of issue with a tarball on Hasnain friday night as i got the following error. Hasnain gzip: stdin: decompression OK, trailing garbage ignored tar: Hasnain Unexpected EOF in archive tar: Unexpected EOF in archive tar: Hasnain Error is not recoverable: exiting now You have a corrupt tarball. Gzip decompressed to a certain point, but the end of the file was ignored. Then when tar tried to read the result, it found the archive was curtailed. -- Dr Peter Chubb http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au peterc AT gelato.unsw.edu.au http://www.ertos.nicta.com.au ERTOS within National ICT Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Problem with TAR gunzip
Hasnain == Hasnain [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hasnain Hi Peter, Basically, Is there anyway to recover those gzip Hasnain files? or do you think we can ignore that corrupted block and Hasnain extract rest of the file? You can extract from the start of the file to where the corruption is. Because of the way that gzip works, decompression depends on the pattern of bytes you've already seen (unless hte file was compressed with the rsync-friendly restart every n k (--rsyncable) flag.) Try zcat file.tgz file.tar then tar xvf file.tar -- Dr Peter Chubb http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au peterc AT gelato.unsw.edu.au http://www.ertos.nicta.com.au ERTOS within National ICT Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Re: Steve Ballmer live rally Sydney November 6
On Nov 2, 6:40 am, Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2008-11-01 at 23:23 +1100, Gerard Kelly wrote: Hey All, Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer will be hosting a live rally in Sydney on November 6th. ... Make a note in your diary now and be watching at the dawn of a new age of freedom. ... In what psychotic world did you imagine this was ontopic for a linux users group list? I, for one, welcome our new cloud computing o... ...oh forget it :) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] SyPy meeting *this* thursday - 06/11
06/11 - Git vs hg vs bzr Date Time: 6:30PM (for a 7pm start) - 8:30PM Thursday, 6th Nov 2008 Meeting Type: Presentation/shoot out Venue: Google Australia, Level 18, Tower 1 Darling Park, 201 Sussex St, Sydney Notes: meet in the foyer. If you are late call Dylan on 0421477460. RSVP: rsvp here http://anyvite.com/events/home/oktrweu5gx/sypy-0611-git-vs-hg-vs-bzr numbers are limited. Three speakers, three alternative distributed source control systems. We all know distributed source control is the future but which one should we be using? Come and find out and then come along for a beer and chat afterwards. Dylan Jay Technical Solutions Manager, Pretaweb.com Skype:dylan_jay P:+61.2.99552830 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
