2009/6/21 Paul Webster <paulwebbi...@googlemail.com>: > The bootup time on my slightly aging Celeron M laptop is now close to 2 > mins. I thought Jaunty was meant to be quick in this department.
> Do computers running Ubuntu gradually get slower and slower like Windows > computers do? No. Ubuntu and Linux in general is very good at maintaining itself and should run indefinitely without problems. That said, if you're anything like me and install lots of random fun-looking programs things may slow down, at least until you tidy up again by removing them! However, I don't think this is the problem here. You could try disabling dropbox and see what happens but I don't think that's the cause (more a symptom) because it shouldn't affect your boot time. Does the system monitor give your memory usage? If not, can you open a terminal (under the Accessories menu I think) and type 'free -m' (without the quotes). Copy and paste the result into a reply email please. In case it's not the memory, can you also type 'dmesg > dmesg.txt' into the same terminal please. This will create a file called dmesg.txt in your home directory. Can you copy the contents into a pastebin and give us a link please? If it turns out that it's the hard drive (the results of the above will give us a clue) then there's a program called smart-notifier that may give you some more information. I've not used it though so I don't know if it needs much/any configuration. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
