On 8/02/2014 5:33 am, slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
I have a Lenovo thinkpad with an Intel Core 2 Duo T5870 2.00 Ghz with a GM
45 Chipset with 8 Gig of DDR III Ram
Since I installed 12.04 LTR my lappy has slowed down and there appears to
be memory issues, I am not able to open as many tabs as I was in the
previous release 11.04
Facebook jams up and I am unable to use Google DOCS, could someone please
suggest a way forward, and some diagnostic tests that I could run to pin
point the issue.
I have been considering getting an SSD drive and a new main board as one of
the USB ports is non functional.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated as I have a mountain of
research and assessments to do.
FWIW I put a kingston flash into 2 machines, a lap top and a desktop
machine both running SuSE 12.[23] both with fstab options including
'discard'
I'm glad I did the laptop.
The desktop machine, including mythbackend, showed no subjective
performance advantage even though myth makes heavy use of mysql. The
flash reached it's useby, running 24/7 after 2 years. It failed
dramatically and the only recovery was a complete reinstall and restore
from backups. All along smart reported ALL GOOD.
The big advantage is you may have one rotating disk and as many flask
disks as you want.
http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Classes/838/Fall2001/Papers/scsi-ata.pdf
And for the detractors I guess that it's worse now than ever!
James
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