After installing the latest version of kubuntu on my thinkpad,
it started out working fairly well, but performance gradually
deteriorated horribly. I've tried every "fix" I could find on
the net, but every time I get something fixed, something else
goes haywire. Many things to like about kubuntu
Standard system troubleshooting would be a good place to start. What is
your IO and CPU like? Are you swapping to disk a lot? Do you have any
obvious errors in /var/log/messages? Do some of your processes consume an
inordinate amount of memory? etc etc
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 3:34 PM, wrote:
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Subject: Re: kubuntu 12.04 performance deterioration
Standard system troubleshooting would be a good place to start. What is
your IO and CPU like? Are you swapping to disk a lot? Do you have any
obvious errors in /var/log/messages? Do some of your processes consume
an inordinate
A runaway task would be my guess as well (Ctrl + ESC is your friend).
I've installed the lastest kubuntu on many machines and I've had the
opposite results. KDE just keeps getting faster and faster with every
new release including 4.9 which has a very noticable speed increase.
Was this a fres
Thanks for the very helpful responses.
Can't believe that I had never heard of CTRL+ESC before. That was very
revealing, though I don't know which items in that list I could safely
remove/kill/delete.
Is there some way to save a copy of that list to a text file?
My system is a Thinkpad with 1.8
Maybe I'm not understand what your looking for, however free and top will show
you how much swap you are using.
Keith Smith
--- On Sat, 7/21/12, j...@actionline.com wrote:
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Subject: Re: kubuntu 12.04 performance deterioration
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From: j...@actionline.com
> Can't believe that I had never heard of CTRL+ESC before.
> Is there some way to save a copy of that list to a text file?
Not that I could find. However, "top -b -n 1 > top.txt" puts similar info
into top.txt, where you can fool with it in a reasonable way.
> Could not
Thanks Matt. All very helpful.
I finally did find and fix the problem with Firefox, and that has also
solved a runaway process (for which Brian provided the clue). It seems I
had a tiny script in /home/joe/bin from ages ago that was using upwards of
75% of the processor power, and deleting that
On 07/21/2012 09:30 AM, j...@actionline.com wrote:
Now, if I can just figure out how to get rid of the annoying kwallet,
cashew, panel icons continually being spontaneously rearranged from the
way I want them, (and several other kde annoyances), perhaps I can finally
get this system stablized and