[ubuntu-uk] Constant crashing
I recently installed Ubuntu on a friends computer as it was running painfully slowly with Windows. It is an older machine and the performance is now acceptable. However it appears that it is regularly hanging and requiring a forced reboot to cure this. When working on their broadband setup yesterday I witnessed this three times in a row, gave up and used my laptop instead. I have run the memory check that comes with Ubuntu and found no errors. I just wondered if anyone had any ideas how to track down the fault. Although slow Windows did not crash like this. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Constant crashing
On 30/05/14 07:07, Gareth France wrote: I recently installed Ubuntu on a friends computer as it was running painfully slowly with Windows. It is an older machine and the performance is now acceptable. However it appears that it is regularly hanging and requiring a forced reboot to cure this. When working on their broadband setup yesterday I witnessed this three times in a row, gave up and used my laptop instead. I have run the memory check that comes with Ubuntu and found no errors. I just wondered if anyone had any ideas how to track down the fault. Although slow Windows did not crash like this. Hi Gareth, Can you please give the model and specifications for your friend's computer? Barry T -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Constant crashing
On 30/05/14 08:13, Barry Titterton wrote: On 30/05/14 07:07, Gareth France wrote: I recently installed Ubuntu on a friends computer as it was running painfully slowly with Windows. It is an older machine and the performance is now acceptable. However it appears that it is regularly hanging and requiring a forced reboot to cure this. When working on their broadband setup yesterday I witnessed this three times in a row, gave up and used my laptop instead. I have run the memory check that comes with Ubuntu and found no errors. I just wondered if anyone had any ideas how to track down the fault. Although slow Windows did not crash like this. Hi Gareth, Can you please give the model and specifications for your friend's computer? Barry T Unfortunately not, until I return there this afternoon. Being a desktop it may not even have a model. All I know off hand is that it is a Pentium 4. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Constant crashing
On 30/05/14 08:16, Gareth France wrote: Unfortunately not, until I return there this afternoon. Being a desktop it may not even have a model. All I know off hand is that it is a Pentium 4. If it never had a memory upgrade, you could be struggling with lack of memory and excessive use of swap. Take a note of the memory size and the size of the swap partition. You might consider one of the lightweight *buntus as a better starting point. I have a Windows 2000 box that had been upgraded both in memory and motherboard. Performance is well below average with Ubuntu, but with Lubuntu (I think that's what I put on it), it performs really well. Regards,Barry Drake. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Constant crashing
On 30/05/14 08:30, Barry Drake wrote: On 30/05/14 08:16, Gareth France wrote: Unfortunately not, until I return there this afternoon. Being a desktop it may not even have a model. All I know off hand is that it is a Pentium 4. OMG! That's really old by today's standards. No wonder it feels slow. Everything will be; memory, disk, dma. As a guess I'd take a long hard look at the hard drive... Run a few sanity checks on it. Al -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Constant crashing
as its an older machine try xubuntu? http://xubuntu.org/getxubuntu/ [g] -Original Message- From: Gareth France Sent: Friday, 30 May, 2014 07:07 To: UK Ubuntu Talk Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Constant crashing I recently installed Ubuntu on a friends computer as it was running painfully slowly with Windows. It is an older machine and xx -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Constant crashing
On May 30, 2014 9:57 AM, George DiceGeorge dicegeo...@hotmail.com wrote: as its an older machine try xubuntu? http://xubuntu.org/getxubuntu/ [g] -Original Message- From: Gareth France Sent: Friday, 30 May, 2014 07:07 To: UK Ubuntu Talk Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Constant crashing I recently installed Ubuntu on a friends computer as it was running painfully slowly with Windows. It is an older machine and xx -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ Hi, On that age of machine I would consider lubuntu or xubuntu or even crunchbang (not a *buntu but Debian based lightweight Openbox os, hope I don't break any list rules straying from *buntus) Also look at how much RAM the machine has, it can be picked up for a few pounds now ! Regards Pete S -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
