2009/9/18 J. Lennard <lennar...@yahoo.com> > Hi list, > > First I'm sorry to write what may appear as a rant, but I hope it is not > considered so. I'm writing to express huge instability problems in Ubuntu > 9.04. I migrated from ubuntu 8.04 (386) to ubuntu 9.04 (amd64) using a > simple clean install. > > While the installation and boot process was blazingly and beautifully fast, > everything else was a disaster, and I'm not exaggerating. > > First, I'd like to mention that I have *zero* proprietary drivers (nvidia > blobs, etc) or extensions (flash) installed. > > I don't really know where to start. During past month, my machine > constantly went to trashing mode where the hard-disk light is constantly on > and I can't access anything or even swtich to linux console for several > *minutes*. This has occured more than four times although all I usually run > is a pdf viewer, an mp3 player, emacs, and firefox with simple html pages > (not even gmail, flash, etc). > > I can't really understand how this can happen. Several times, and after a > day or two of use, firefox, with *one* simple html tab open took 340+ MBs; > that's insane. Evince took 120MB while only a single pdf file was open. Even > Xorg was taking RAM around a hundread megabyte.[1] > > The final result? a machine constantly thrashing and basically unusable. I > ran this on a core2 laptop with a full 1GB of ram. How come the experience > is SO bad in supposedly a *stable* distro? > > The second problem is that the GUI is *really* slow, and I use *zero* > visual effects. Switching between workspaces is very sluggish where I see > parts of firefox in my audacious window for about half a second while > switching between workspaces. Switching between applications (alt+tab) is > not smooth at all. > > You don't have enough RAM. 1 GB is pretty low by today's standards. You may be happier with xubuntu on a lower spec machine, but as you've got a fast CPU then you should get more RAM as it is a clear bottleneck.
You may be happier without compiz at all - but your system will run a lot better if you sort your RAM problem out. Caroline
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