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Mysterious slowness
I upgraded to Ubuntu Karmic Koala, and all seemed to be okay for a while, and then I upgraded fifteen packages which were not upgraded, without first taking careful note of which packages those were. (Yes, I know, this isn't particularly clever, but it's always worked in the past.)
In any case, my desktop is now slow to the point of unusability. (I have some panel applets, tomboy, tasque, ubuntu one and dropbox going) but I can only open one cpu-intensive application at a time now, and it is painful to use; i.e. Firefox or Totem, pick one, and don't expect to get anything like work done.
When I look at top, I don't see any processes using lots of CPU cycles or memory except Xorg. (I don't know if Xorg normally uses lots of cpu/memory; I almost always run top as top -u, I only started running it for the whole system when the system started slowing down.)
Does anyone know of a good reference to explain what I'm seeing with top, or know of another way to find out why my computer is so slow, or have any suggestions generally?
Worst to worst, I can backup the home drive to my external hard drive and do a clean re-install, but I'd rather not.
In any case, my desktop is now slow to the point of unusability. (I have some panel applets, tomboy, tasque, ubuntu one and dropbox going) but I can only open one cpu-intensive application at a time now, and it is painful to use; i.e. Firefox or Totem, pick one, and don't expect to get anything like work done.
When I look at top, I don't see any processes using lots of CPU cycles or memory except Xorg. (I don't know if Xorg normally uses lots of cpu/memory; I almost always run top as top -u, I only started running it for the whole system when the system started slowing down.)
Does anyone know of a good reference to explain what I'm seeing with top, or know of another way to find out why my computer is so slow, or have any suggestions generally?
Worst to worst, I can backup the home drive to my external hard drive and do a clean re-install, but I'd rather not.
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However, I do know what Xorg is. Xorg is the X windows server, the thing that controls how graphical content is displayed on your computer.
Xorg should not be clogging up all your system resources. That isn't normal and means there's a problem somewhere with the X windows system or how your window manager/applications are talking to it.
You could try downgrading your Xorg version to the one you had previously to fix this, or you could wait for an update to a newer version of Xorg which will hopefully not have this bug.
You could also try looking at your X server logs (in /var/log/) to give you a clue as to why this is happening.
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When Jaunty came out, everyone using Intel graphics experienced a huge performance hit. Supposedly they'd fixed that in Karmic, but maybe they didn't.
There's a how-to for it here: LINK
I doubt if that is the problem, but it's one thing that comes to mind as a possibility!
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I totally didn't notice that - it would explain why on my Hardy desktop, every thing is a struggle!