[HanoiLUG] Ubuntu is getting slower with each version?

Hi there, 2008/10/28 Vu Do Quynh > Anyway, What I observed is the increased amount of RAM being used > through the versions of Ubuntu. I have a 512 Mb RAM laptop which is 4 > years old, and I can see that now RAM is completely used up by the > system and that some swap space start to be used, wh

[HanoiLUG] Ubuntu is getting slower with each version?

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Clarious wrote: > I know that why the underlying hardware is still the same, the software > demands grow up. But in this case, why should newer version of Ubuntu is > slower? That is understandable: newer version has more features, more code, so gets slower. Optim

[HanoiLUG] Ubuntu is getting slower with each version?

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 6:50 PM, Vu Do Quynh wrote: > Nguyen Vu Hung a ?crit : > >> It is nonsense to compare two versions of Ubuntu on the same hardware, >> because new software doesn't mean better performance but more computer >> resources. > > Not really : say I have a computer for 3/4 years an

[HanoiLUG] Ubuntu is getting slower with each version?

2008/10/28 NAHieu >Why not? kernel size increases crazily between versions. Umm, I am not a kernel hacker, but I have read several documentations about linux kernel. If I am not wrong, the increasement of code size in linux is mainly due to new drivers. Performance is related to memory managerme

[HanoiLUG] Ubuntu is getting slower with each version?

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:41 PM, Clarious wrote: > Hello everyone! > > I have just read this page: > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_bench_2008&num=1 > > It has some benchmarks regarding different versions of Ubuntu (7.04 to > 8.10), and the result shows that newer versi

[HanoiLUG] Ubuntu is getting slower with each version?

Nguyen Vu Hung a ?crit : >> It's quite sure that Ubuntu 8.04 is more RAM consuming than previous >> versions. If you get 1 Gb RAM, you'll see that > 700 MB of RAM is >> already used by the system after having booted to the GNOME desktop >> environment. > How about xfce( latest) and Mozilla 1.0? :

[HanoiLUG] Ubuntu is getting slower with each version?

Clarious a ?crit : > How strange, my system after booting up with Ubuntu 7.10 consume > ~171MB Ram (with Compiz), no swap used, while with Ubuntu 8.04 the > number is ~225MB Ram (compiz), still no swap used. It would be interesting for sure if you could make a comparison of memory usage by process

[HanoiLUG] Ubuntu is getting slower with each version?

I know that why the underlying hardware is still the same, the software demands grow up. But in this case, why should newer version of Ubuntu is slower? The kernel should not be the problem here, right? Then it might be the software, but I don't think the different between OO 2.4 and 3.0 is that gr

[HanoiLUG] Ubuntu is getting slower with each version?

Nguyen Vu Hung a ?crit : > It is nonsense to compare two versions of Ubuntu on the same hardware, > because new software doesn't mean better performance but more computer > resources. Not really : say I have a computer for 3/4 years and I upgraded to every new versions of Ubuntu (say from 6.06 to

[HanoiLUG] Ubuntu is getting slower with each version?

, whatever distros. Kind regards, Tuan - Original Message - From: "Clarious" To: "Hanoi Linux Users Group" Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 8:41:33 PM GMT +07:00 Bangkok, Hanoi, Jakarta Subject: [HanoiLUG] Ubuntu is getting slower with each version? Hello everyone! I

[HanoiLUG] Ubuntu is getting slower with each version?

Hello everyone! I have just read this page: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_bench_2008&num=1 It has some benchmarks regarding different versions of Ubuntu (7.04 to 8.10), and the result shows that newer version of Ubuntu is slower than the older ones. I haven't used Ubun