Slowness problem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm using the deprecated Debian Lenny with a 2.6.26-2-686-bigmem kernel on an Asus P5K/EPU motherboard with a 4-cores config. I'm having, already for a long time, slowness issues. It looks like when a task is `too demanding,' everything freezes u

Re: Slowness problem

Firefox or Iceweasel? However, even if sometimes other apps cause this too, the cause might be Firefox. With 'firefox -P' you could use a new instance of Firefox, to test if it does behave like your default. Perhaps there are messages, if you run Firefox by a terminal emulation. Firefox is my favor

Re: Slowness problem

On 24/06/12 11:05 AM, Merciadri Luca wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm using the deprecated Debian Lenny with a 2.6.26-2-686-bigmem kernel on an Asus P5K/EPU motherboard with a 4-cores config. I'm having, already for a long time, slowness issues. It looks like when a

Re: Slowness problem

On Sun, 2012-06-24 at 17:19 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Firefox or Iceweasel? However, even if sometimes other apps cause this > too, the cause might be Firefox. With 'firefox -P' you could use a new > instance of Firefox, to test if it does behave like your default. Oops, no, it's anoth

Re: Slowness problem

On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 17:05:37 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi there... Nice to read you again! :-) > I'm using the deprecated Debian Lenny with a 2.6.26-2-686-bigmem kernel > on an Asus P5K/EPU motherboard with a 4-cores config. I'm having, > already for a long time, slowness issues. How about yo

Re: Slowness problem

On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 11:22:58 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > On 24/06/12 11:05 AM, Merciadri Luca wrote: >> I'm using the deprecated Debian Lenny with a 2.6.26-2-686-bigmem kernel >> on an Asus P5K/EPU motherboard with a 4-cores config. I'm having, >> already for a long time, slowness issues. (...) >

Re: Slowness problem

On Sun, 2012-06-24 at 15:33 +, Camaleón wrote: > But you can also run more tests, like disabling your > add-ons and plugins E.g. by using another profile, running 'firefox -P' by a terminal emulation. Keep your default profile and test what happens with a virginal Firefox, so you can keep eve

Re: Slowness problem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hello Merciadri, Merciadri Luca wrote: > 1) scrolling a little bit in the page, > 2) waiting 2 or 3 (!) seconds, then scrolling the rest. > > That is, scrolling is slow and freezes for 2-3 s after having scrolled > a little bit. Then, it scrolls u

Re: Slowness problem

On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 17:40:50 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 2012-06-24 at 15:33 +, Camaleón wrote: >> But you can also run more tests, like disabling your add-ons and >> plugins > > E.g. by using another profile, (...) No, I wanted he tries first with his current profile to discard a

Re: Slowness problem

On Sun, 2012-06-24 at 15:58 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 17:40:50 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > On Sun, 2012-06-24 at 15:33 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> But you can also run more tests, like disabling your add-ons and > >> plugins > > > > E.g. by using another profile, > > (..

Re: Slowness problem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gary Dale writes: > Have you considered moving to a more recent release? Yes. > Lenny is ancient by today's standards. I know, but apart from the firefox problem, my installation is quite stable and I don't want to move now. - -- Merciadri Luca See

Re: Slowness problem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ralf Mardorf writes: > Firefox or Iceweasel? Firefox 13.0.1. > However, even if sometimes other apps cause this > too, the cause might be Firefox. With 'firefox -P' you could use a new > instance of Firefox, to test if it does behave like your defaul

Re: Slowness problem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón writes: > On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 17:05:37 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > > Hi there... Nice to read you again! :-) > >> I'm using the deprecated Debian Lenny with a 2.6.26-2-686-bigmem kernel >> on an Asus P5K/EPU motherboard with a 4-cores con

Re: Slowness problem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Claudius, I have about 6 GiB of swap, and 0 is used. With other apps running, $ free -m total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 4053 2002 2050 0340832 - -/+ buffers/

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Hello Merciadri, Merciadri Luca wrote: > $ free -m > total used free sharedbuffers cached > Mem: 4053 2002 2050 0340832 > - -/+ buffers/cache:829 3223 > Swap: 5938 0 5938 Looks

Re: Slowness problem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ralf Mardorf writes: > On Sun, 2012-06-24 at 15:58 +, Camaleón wrote: >> On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 17:40:50 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> >> > On Sun, 2012-06-24 at 15:33 +, Camaleón wrote: >> >> But you can also run more tests, like disabling you

Re: Slowness problem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Claudius Hubig writes: > Hello Merciadri, > > Merciadri Luca wrote: >> $ free -m >> total used free sharedbuffers cached >> Mem: 4053 2002 2050 0340832 >> - -/+ buffe

Re: Slowness problem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hello Merciadri, that looks all quite good. You are using direct rendering, no errors show up in the log file and although the screen is quite large, that shouldn’t be the problem. But maybe you could try to install a newer nVidia-Driver, if availab

Re: Slowness problem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Claudius, I just tested with a new driver, to no avail. I sometimes hear the fans in the computer running mad. Here is a quick video that I took with Istanbul: Istanbul seems to be sl

Re: Slowness problem

On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 21:56:00 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Camaleón writes: > >> How about your ram? > I have 4.0 GiB and I'm using a max of 1500 MiB with firefox and youtube, > so there's really no problem over there, unfortunately. Okay, then no, ram should not be a issue here. >> When tha

Re: Slowness problem

he same foe whatever additional > version you can have installed, e.g., "gnash") and retry. It looks weird > seeing Firefox to render slowly a usual page like Youtube, even more with > flash player disabled :-? I just tried, using the plug-in menu. This has no influence, and

Re: Slowness problem

t;> even more with flash player disabled :-? > I just tried, using the plug-in menu. This has no influence, and it > looks logical as the slowness problem is already encountered on the > welcome page, which does not really contain flash stuff (these are just > thumbnails)! Well, yes, t

Re: Slowness problem

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Re: Slowness problem

On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 16:08:05 +, Camaleón wrote: > Sorry, no more ideas on what the problem can be located. (...) One more thing you can test if you still have not tried... and easy one: create a fresh new user account and work for a while from there. Although I don't expect any improvemen

Re: Slowness problem

I haven't all emails in mind. Did we already ask you to turn of power and to reconnect all cards, RAM bars and cables? Resp. IIRC somebody already mentioned to test a LiveMedia? So what happens if you e.g. use http://partedmagic.com/doku.php?id=start ? - Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Slowness problem

On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 17:52:17 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 16:08:05 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> Sorry, no more ideas on what the problem can be located. > > (...) > > One more thing you can test if you still have not tried... and easy one: > create a fresh new user account and wo

Re: Slowness problem

On Thu, 2012-06-28 at 20:04 +, Camaleón wrote: > #Driver "nvidia" > Driver "nv" Usually nvidia drivers < 2xx.x don't cause issues. Ciao, Ralf Congratulations Italy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Re: Slowness problem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks for all your answers. I'll try this when I'll have again physical access to the related computer. Note that the problem is also extremely present when I try to watch an HD video that I recorded e.g. from a camcorder: a picture is displayed then

Re: Slowness problem

On Fri, 29 Jun 2012 18:21:06 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Thanks for all your answers. I'll try this when I'll have again physical > access to the related computer. Note that the problem is also extremely > present when I try to watch an HD video that I recorded e.g. from a > camcorder: a pictur

Re: Slowness problem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm writing from my brand new installation now. I actually installed Debian Squeeze, together with a new kernel (2.6.32-5-686). The problem which was majoritarly present when dealing with e.g. HD videos was coming from the fact that I was missing