Ubuntu - Slow?

BeatMaster · 1 Nov 2007 at 19:38

I've been having a play with Ubuntu over the last couple of weeks but have just booted back into Windows and things seem to be quicker in Windows.

Any tips to speed up Ubuntu on bootup and general running?

I looked into initng but didn't manage to get it working...

Thanks in advance,

BeatMaster

BeatMaster · 1 Nov 2007 at 20:33

AMD Opteron 165 @ Stock
DFI Ultra-D
2x 512Mb Corsair PC3200LL
Western Digital WD500AAKS 500Gb SATA II
Nvidia 7800GT

So a fairly decent spec, not sure what is slowing things down on the Ubuntu side.

BeatMaster · 2 Nov 2007 at 12:44

Will look at dmesg tonight, hopefully that might speed things up a bit. I always envisaged Linux to be as quick as Mac OS X which boots really fast. Once up and running things appear to be quite quick, although for some reason some pieces of software seem to take a while to startup so will try turning off rotating cube.

Will post back with results.

BeatMaster · 2 Nov 2007 at 19:02

Tried turning acpi off but then linux failed to boot

May try the 64bit edition to see if that has any performance gains. I mean how fast should Ubuntu 7.10 be booting? Comparable speeds to XP?

After the loading bar it goes to an orange desktop, then flashes to a larger desktop and then changes to my desktop followed by a few seconds or so later by icons. However on XP after the loading bar it appears with Welcome and then 2 seconds later the desktop and away I can go...

BeatMaster