Re: [ubuntu-uk] Feeling tortured by Ubuntu

2011-10-20 Thread Kris Douglas
On 18 October 2011 14:37, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote: Can you clarify that, do you mean that you saw the same issue on an earlier version of Ubuntu?  Your first post gave the impression this was a new problem. Hello, I am coming back to post my findings, I have been experiencing

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Feeling tortured by Ubuntu

2011-10-20 Thread John Stevenson
On 20 October 2011 11:33, Kris Douglas krisdoug...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I am coming back to post my findings, I have been experiencing this problem with the last two releases of Ubuntu. Currently Compiz is using 247MB of RAM, which is a lot, but as a percentage of my current system RAM,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Feeling tortured by Ubuntu

2011-10-20 Thread paul sutton
In my humble experience running 100 tabs in any browser for an extended period of time can lead to slow response times for your browser. If you go to a lot of flash sites (hard to avoid) with Chrome / Chromium then that's a lot of flash plugin that can leak memory and potentially cause

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Feeling tortured by Ubuntu

2011-10-20 Thread John Stevenson
On 20 October 2011 12:52, paul sutton zl...@zleap.net wrote: ** In my humble experience running 100 tabs in any browser for an extended period of time can lead to slow response times for your browser. If you go to a lot of flash sites (hard to avoid) with Chrome / Chromium then that's a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Feeling tortured by Ubuntu

2011-10-20 Thread Kris Douglas
On 20 October 2011 12:52, paul sutton zl...@zleap.net wrote: In my humble experience running 100 tabs in any browser for an extended period of time can lead to slow response times for your browser.  If you go to a lot of flash sites (hard to avoid) with Chrome / Chromium then that's a lot of

[ubuntu-uk] Feeling tortured by Ubuntu

2011-10-18 Thread Kris Douglas
Hello, I use Ubuntu in the workplace, I am having a problem with it at the moment that is beginning to drive me a bit mad. I have upgraded to the latest version this week, and I am seeing graphical artefacts every so often, which is new, but they do go away after I have logged in. The worst

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Feeling tortured by Ubuntu

2011-10-18 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 18 October 2011 12:49, Kris Douglas krisdoug...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I use Ubuntu in the workplace, I am having a problem with it at the moment that is beginning to drive me a bit mad. I have upgraded to the latest version this week, and I am seeing graphical artefacts every so often,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Feeling tortured by Ubuntu

2011-10-18 Thread Kris Douglas
On 18 October 2011 13:08, Simon Greenwood sfgreenw...@gmail.com wrote: On 18 October 2011 12:49, Kris Douglas krisdoug...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I use Ubuntu in the workplace, I am having a problem with it at the moment that is beginning to drive me a bit mad. I have upgraded to the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Feeling tortured by Ubuntu

2011-10-18 Thread Dave Morley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18/10/11 13:31, Kris Douglas wrote: On 18 October 2011 13:08, Simon Greenwood sfgreenw...@gmail.com wrote: On 18 October 2011 12:49, Kris Douglas krisdoug...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I use Ubuntu in the workplace, I am having a problem

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Feeling tortured by Ubuntu

2011-10-18 Thread Kris Douglas
Are there known problems with severe slowdowns with the PAE Kern? If that's a pretty good contender to being the problem I will wipe the machine in a heartbeat. Sent from my Desire HD running CM7 On Oct 18, 2011 1:33 PM, Dave Morley davm...@davmor2.co.uk wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Feeling tortured by Ubuntu

2011-10-18 Thread Dave Morley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18/10/11 13:36, Kris Douglas wrote: Are there known problems with severe slowdowns with the PAE Kern? If that's a pretty good contender to being the problem I will wipe the machine in a heartbeat. Sent from my Desire HD running CM7 On Oct

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Feeling tortured by Ubuntu

2011-10-18 Thread alan c
On 18/10/11 12:49, Kris Douglas wrote: Hello, I use Ubuntu in the workplace, I am having a problem with it at the moment that is beginning to drive me a bit mad. I have upgraded to the latest version this week, and I am seeing graphical artefacts every so often, which is new, but they do go

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Feeling tortured by Ubuntu

2011-10-18 Thread Colin Law
On 18 October 2011 14:18, alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com wrote: On 18/10/11 12:49, Kris Douglas wrote: Hello, I use Ubuntu in the workplace, I am having a problem with it at the moment that is beginning to drive me a bit mad. I have upgraded to the latest version this week, and I am seeing

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Feeling tortured by Ubuntu

2011-10-18 Thread Colin Law
On 18 October 2011 13:31, Kris Douglas krisdoug...@gmail.com wrote: On 18 October 2011 13:08, Simon Greenwood sfgreenw...@gmail.com wrote: On 18 October 2011 12:49, Kris Douglas krisdoug...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I use Ubuntu in the workplace, I am having a problem with it at the moment

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Feeling tortured by Ubuntu

2011-10-18 Thread Bea Groves
Hi! I would be very surprised if this is not a problem with graphics card compatibility, and perhaps a shortage of RAM (and maybe too small a swap partition?). Just a thought... I installed 11.10 on an old Pentium 4 laptop last night with only 512Mb RAM. Worked fine, if sluggishly, and shows how