Intrepid64/KDE4 slow on Laptop

[linoobius]

Well, first let me get the specs out of the way:

AMD Turion 64 X2 Dual-Core Mobile Technology TL-60 (2.0 GHz, 2 x 512 KB L2 cache)
2.5GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
ATI Radeon X1250
Kubuntu 8.10/64bit

Now, it started with the installation. That took 3 hours!! > Now it's installed and my entire system crawls and I get up to about 10% of my internet speed!! (after about 15 secs or so)

I'm a noob and will admit it freely!!

I have searched the forum and tried changing from OpenGL to Xrender - didn't work.
I turned off all effects - didn't help.
I've run all the updates - no help.

A webpage takes, on average, a minute to a minute and a half to load. I have a 5MB cable connection so there's no reson for that!!!

HELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!

[Snowhog]

Re: Intrepid64/KDE4 at a crawl on Laptop

Open a console and type:

top

top - 13:55:20 up 2:56, 1 user, load average: 0.37, 0.29, 0.26
Tasks: 135 total,  1 running, 134 sleeping,  0 stopped,  0 zombie
Cpu(s): 7.2%us, 0.8%sy, 0.0%ni, 91.9%id, 0.0%wa, 0.1%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem:  1023992k total, 1007824k used,  16168k free,  72016k buffers
Swap: 2096440k total,   1188k used, 2095252k free,  436684k cached

 PID USER   PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM  TIME+ COMMAND
 6204 paul   20  0 234m 81m 30m S  10 8.2  9:24.01 konqueror
 5622 root   20  0 460m 87m 5640 S  9 8.7 10:19.19 Xorg
 5962 paul   20  0 69320 19m 14m S  2 1.9  2:42.02 kwin
 6039 paul   20  0 27572 10m 7372 S  1 1.0  1:26.90 gkrellm
11058 paul   20  0 121m 24m 15m S  1 2.4  0:00.80 konsole
 6019 paul   20  0 148m 28m 14m S  0 2.9  0:09.58 knotify4
  1 root   20  0 3056 1884 564 S  0 0.2  0:01.64 init
  2 root   15 -5   0  0  0 S  0 0.0  0:00.00 kthreadd
  3 root   RT -5   0  0  0 S  0 0.0  0:00.82 migration/0
  4 root   15 -5   0  0  0 S  0 0.0  0:04.16 ksoftirqd/0
  5 root   RT -5   0  0  0 S  0 0.0  0:00.00 watchdog/0
  6 root   RT -5   0  0  0 S  0 0.0  0:00.00 migration/1
  7 root   15 -5   0  0  0 S  0 0.0  0:00.70 ksoftirqd/1

Note the running applications/resources that are taking up the most CPU cycles (%CPU). That may provide us with a clue as to what's going on.

[dibl]

Re: Intrepid64/KDE4 slow on Laptop

Now, it started with the installation. That took 3 hours!!

That suggests that something went wrong at the start -- it shouldn't take more than about 20 minutes. What was going on for 3 hours? If it was an optical drive seeking, seeking, seeking on a CD, that's probably an indicator of a bad CD.

[linoobius]

Re: Intrepid64/KDE4 slow on Laptop

I'm on my girlfriend's computer because it's useable!! lol But posting the results from running top isn't feasable really. My thoughts are that downloading and burning a new disk (on a different machine)would be the best bet. So I'll let you know if that helped

[dibl]

Re: Intrepid64/KDE4 slow on Laptop

My thoughts are that downloading and burning a new disk (on a different machine)would be the best bet.

I agree. Check #1 here and follow the guidance:

http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3099811.0

[linoobius]

Re: Intrepid64/KDE4 slow on Laptop

ok, new download, new mirror and new burn on different machine. Steps 1 & 2 went quick, but step 3 took over 10 minutes. Alot of hdd access but not exsesive read access on the cdrom. Step 4 I used the manual option since I already have a linux partition. I set the mount point and the format option to true. Scanning disks dialogue takes a while with very little hdd activity. Step 5 went quick. Step 6 "Scaning files" & "Copying files" takes FOREVER!! I can't wait anymore. What's the deal


Start time: 7:49
Post time: 8:52

[linoobius]

Re: Intrepid64/KDE4 slow on Laptop

Ok I'm back!! No good news unfortunately The fresh install took a lil over 2 hours!! It's a hair faster, but I still have the same issues. I noticed when I was opening this window and terminal at the same time, that the bouncing terminal was whiting out the underlying graphics. Slow redraw. And here are the results from top:

top - 07:48:11 up 31 min, 1 user, load average: 4.61, 4.06, 3.65
Tasks: 131 total, 5 running, 126 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 57.4%us, 14.0%sy, 20.2%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 7.7%hi, 0.7%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 2444048k total, 985068k used, 1458980k free, 59912k buffers
Swap: 136512k total, 0k used, 136512k free, 321060k cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
5432 root 20 0 473m 87m 13m R 42 3.7 4:34.91 Xorg
6843 root 30 10 205m 140m 4628 R 40 5.9 11:34.08 update-apt-xapi
7151 michael 20 0 309m 41m 25m S 28 1.7 1:23.26 konqueror
5823 michael 20 0 300m 22m 15m R 15 0.9 1:43.12 kwin
5796 michael 20 0 290m 23m 15m S 13 1.0 0:36.96 kded4
7212 michael 20 0 297m 27m 15m S 12 1.1 0:09.42 konsole
5724 michael 20 0 24620 4316 636 S 9 0.2 0:40.50 dbus-daemon
7192 michael 20 0 243m 10m 6420 S 6 0.4 0:05.68 kio_http
7280 michael 20 0 19100 1332 992 R 6 0.1 0:00.64 top
7262 michael 20 0 179m 10m 6420 S 5 0.4 0:04.19 kio_http
7194 michael 20 0 243m 10m 6464 S 5 0.4 0:05.86 kio_http
7274 michael 20 0 179m 10m 6416 S 4 0.4 0:03.82 kio_http
7185 michael 20 0 243m 10m 6460 S 4 0.4 0:06.41 kio_http
5919 michael 20 0 621m 26m 15m S 3 1.1 1:02.68 knotify4
5853 michael 20 0 348m 37m 20m S 1 1.6 2:32.98 plasma
6667 michael 20 0 170m 10m 8200 S 1 0.4 0:02.76 kwalletd
1301 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 1 0.0 0:01.94 ata/1
2119 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 1 0.0 0:05.98 scsi_eh_4
4913 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 1 0.0 0:00.32 kondemand/0
5187 haldaemo 20 0 36200 4856 3832 R 1 0.2 0:24.52 hald
5295 root 20 0 20052 1184 996 S 1 0.0 0:07.38 hald-addon-stor
5998 michael 20 0 273m 19m 13m S 1 0.8 0:22.48 krunner
6095 michael 20 0 203m 12m 9964 S 1 0.5 0:06.92 klipper
7250 michael 20 0 240m 9.8m 5712 S 0 0.4 0:03.17 kio_http
1 root 20 0 4100 908 616 S 0 0.0 0:01.10 init
2 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd
3 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.12 migration/0
4 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0
5 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.02 watchdog/0

[linoobius]

Re: Intrepid64/KDE4 slow on Laptop (Solved)

Scrapped Intrepid and installed Hardy. Best decision I ever made!!