On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Sean Miller wrote:
> Why would fragmentation cause latency?
>
> Sean
Heavy load on disk controllers while they seek would add to the overall CPU
load. I wouldn't say this is likely to be the exclusive cause of the
symptoms you are seeing - just a pitfall that I
Why would fragmentation cause latency?
Sean
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i dont have firefox installed anymore because it crashes more than chrome.
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On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 10:40 AM, John Matthews wrote:
> On 08/09/10 10:08, Glen Mehn wrote:
> >> > On 08/09/10 07:00, Xiamen wrote:
> >>> >> im using 10.10 , chromium on a macbook 2.1. when I watch flash
> >>
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Alan Pope wrote:
>
> Just as an aside (and I'm not discounting the possibility of hardware issue
- this seems likely) what's the drive fragmentation like on the host drive?
The curse of installing an Ext3/4 container on an NTFS partition is that the
container is s
On 8 September 2010 13:16, Sean Miller wrote:
> Just bought PC Pro which has a Live CD of Ubuntu - may try booting
> from that and see if I exhibit the same symptoms.
>
Worth doing but might not prove much.
> If I don't, will be interesting to know what the potential resolution might
> be.
>
U
Indeed, sorry I should have explained my reasons for trying it.
Daniel
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On 8 September 2010 13:13, Alan Pope wrote:
> It could well be down to one of the chips on the motherboard that
> interacts with the keyboard. This is not uncommon. Using an external
> keyboard will help to eliminate or single out this possibility.
Just bought PC Pro which has a Live CD of Ubuntu
On 8 September 2010 13:07, Sean Miller wrote:
> Don't have one at the moment, but might borrow one and try.
>
> But as the keyboard in WIndows 7 is same as the one in Ubuntu I am not
> sure why that would be the case - are you suggesting it's keyboard
> drivers or something?
>
It could well be do
On 8 September 2010 12:56, Daniel Case wrote:
> Hi there Sean,
> Have you tried to use an external USB keyboard to see if the problem
> persists?
Don't have one at the moment, but might borrow one and try.
But as the keyboard in WIndows 7 is same as the one in Ubuntu I am not
sure why that would
Hi there Sean,
Have you tried to use an external USB keyboard to see if the problem
persists?
Daniel
On 8 September 2010 12:53, Sean Miller wrote:
> On 8 September 2010 12:50, Dave Morley wrote:
> > Wubi utilises the hardware directly. The only latency issues you should
> > have are with disk
On 8 September 2010 12:50, Dave Morley wrote:
> Wubi utilises the hardware directly. The only latency issues you should
> have are with disk i/o.
>
> Wubi basically sets up a virtual partition on the windows HD and and
> does a pretty standard install into that virtual drive.
>
> The only things
On Wed, 2010-09-08 at 06:59 +0100, Sean Miller wrote:
> My Compaq laptop, running Ubuntu, died a death last week... so have
> now reverted to a Windows 7 Advent and - as one does - I thought
> "let's dual-boot"... WUBI seemed an option, so that's what I did.
>
> Alas, I appear to have some issue w
On 08/09/10 10:08, Glen Mehn wrote:
>> > On 08/09/10 07:00, Xiamen wrote:
>>> >> im using 10.10 , chromium on a macbook 2.1. when I watch flash
>>> >> movies (youtube youku tudou ...) the plug in crashes all the time...
>>> >>
>>> >> /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so ...
>On 08/09/10 07:00, Xiamen wrote:
>> im using 10.10 , chromium on a macbook 2.1. when I watch flash
>> movies (youtube youku tudou ...) the plug in crashes all the time...
>>
>> /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so . is anyone else
>> getting this? happens more when I open
On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 15:27 +0100, Dianne Reuby wrote:
> Just got my laptop - that hasn't had the recent updates installed as I
> haven't been using it, and Flash is still working perfectly.
>
> Now I can't decide whether to install the upgrades or not!
I've tried two older kernels, and the prob
On 08/09/10 07:00, Xiamen wrote:
> im using 10.10 , chromium on a macbook 2.1. when I watch flash
> movies (youtube youku tudou ...) the plug in crashes all the time...
>
> /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so . is anyone else
> getting this? happens more when I open the ubu
On 7 September 2010 16:21, Andrew Seyes wrote:
>
> If you dont fancy making a permanent change you can (according to [1])
> just hold down the shift key as the computer boots to reveal the menu.
> Not tried that myself though.
Works. I've done it a few times (although I am still used to pressing
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