Gutsy Seems Slower

[Guest]

I'm hoping it's just some misconfiguration on my part, but Gutsy seems slower than Feisty. I do have it installed on my home PC where it seems fine and I don't get the slow downs, but it's a beefy box. Dual CPU, 4GB Ram.

My problem seems to be with the install on my laptop.

I used to run firefox, kaffeine, and openoffice without a problem. Now it seems whenever I do something, it takes a second to think about it.

When I look at top, strigidaemon, seems to always be at the top 10 processes.

And before someone asks:
This is a Toshiba Satellite A20-S259 P4 2.6 with 1GB of memory, 1GB of Swap as well.

Any ideas on how to streamline the system a bit? I am considering dropping KDE and going to Xubuntu for the laptop.

[marshallbanana]

Re: Gutsy Seems Slower

Have you tried turning strigidaemon of for a while and see if that solves it given you list that as a suspect?

[aged hippy]

Re: Gutsy Seems Slower

Strigi seemed too much of a parasite to me so i removed it and things certainly seem to run faster.
I *think* it's database was around 9Gb.

It presumably indexes every letter in every word in every file, and then cross-references them all.

[Guest]

Re: Gutsy Seems Slower

I've been searching for a way to turn it off other than kill, but uninstall works for me, it's not like I use it.

And it does seem to help. I'll see how things act in the morning.