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07 Jul 2009, 11:39 pm

use something other than gnome in ubuntu and maybe switch to a system that's not as bloated as ubuntu. Use openbox, kfce, or one of the many other WM

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08 Jul 2009, 12:45 am

RageBeoulve wrote:

use something other than gnome in ubuntu and maybe switch to a system that's not as bloated as ubuntu. Use openbox, kfce, or one of the many other WM

Ubuntu's not that bloated, and he said it was fine until recently. And XFCE isn't a huge performance benefit over GNOME. Going below XFCE (to LXDE and then straight-up WM's) costs you the convenience of a well-integrated, full-featured desktop environment.

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08 Jul 2009, 2:36 am

With 2 gig of ram you probably dont need a swap. Feel confident in deleting it? swapoff first, then use gparted to delete that swap partition.

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08 Jul 2009, 6:02 am

Orwell wrote:

he said it was fine until recently

He is a she.

And the swap off thing quit working, it's now slow again. It's broke, isn't it?

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08 Jul 2009, 6:09 am

kip wrote:

Orwell wrote:

he said it was fine until recently

He is a she.

And the swap off thing quit working, it's now slow again. It's broke, isn't it?

If your /home is in a separate partition, then a reinstall will be very easy.

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08 Jul 2009, 8:28 am

Fuzzy wrote:

kip wrote:

Orwell wrote:

he said it was fine until recently

He is a she.

And the swap off thing quit working, it's now slow again. It's broke, isn't it?

If your /home is in a separate partition, then a reinstall will be very easy.

No, I usually just throw everything on the same bloody partition with the exception of swap. Oh well, not the end of the world. I'll just copy everything to the windoze side and reinstall. Thanks everyone for trying to help me with this, I suppose I just seem to have back luck.

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08 Jul 2009, 8:35 am

another issue worth investigating for the shutdowns at least is a cooling issue, I had an old Athlon XP lock up on me this way so had to do some reversing of the fan direction in the rear of the case

I currently have an Athlon 64 x2 in there, it works well and has given me no issues (except with windows which I suspect is coded with x86 32bit in mind, NOT 64 though 64bit CPUs can and should run a 32bit OS fine

if you're unsure in any way, get the system investigated by someone who knows a fair bit about computers

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08 Jul 2009, 9:31 am

kip wrote:

See now, I have the same experience. This comp ran beautifully with 8.04 and 8.10. It's 9.04 thats causing the problem, but no one on the Ubu forums seems to have this issue... it's like it's the perfect storm of crap hardware and bugged OS.

Update on swap: Comp shut itself off again, re-enabling swap. Noticeably slower than it was after I disabled it, so it's possible Fuzzy was right and there is something wrong with the way it talks to the swap. I'm just glad OO has that document recovery feature.

Switch back to either 8.04 or 8.10, then. FWIW, before I loaded Ubuntu on my linux system, I tried one of the later Fedora Core releases and was absolutely galled by how slow it was running with that distro.

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