|
I recently purchased a nice asus 1000HE, and installed Ubuntu NBR. However, I'm pretty disappointed with how sluggish it feels. I'm wondering if I maybe need to install a closed-source graphics driver - it feels similar to how my work laptop performed...
Started by Pete Hodgson on
, 7 posts
by 7 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
Check if your kernel version is at least 2.6.28-15.48.
Utilization -- are you near peak? is swap being used? If you feel the network access is sluggish (terminals to be sluggish in a number of netbook models for some time.
|
|
Edit: Found out that this happens even though Cufon isn't even applied! Edit2: My bad, looks like Cufon is creating the slowless afterall. However, removing the line where I replace the menuwrapper font style with Cufon still results in sluggish behaviour...
Started by Kenny Bones on
, 3 posts
by 3 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
Getting nowhere....
Margin-top:10px; /* down it by 10 pixels */
Just have to lay this one dead I guess .
Could not understand what you mean exactly but as you said you want to get it a bit lower at the bottom, then you can do that with margin-top css property .
|
|
The system starts up fine, and for about 5 minutes (est.) things are fine. Then the system starts to get very sluggish ("choppy"): the mouse will freeze for two or three seconds, then release for about one to two seconds. I've tried using DTrace, but ...
Started by David on
, 3 posts
by 3 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
I've since overwritten this installation....
I found that the problem was either the wireless networking or ethernet networking .
I would start with running prstat (top) to see if you can determine if there is a specific process that is causing the slowdown .
|
Ask your Facebook Friends
|
Hello all,
I am trying to build a small application that logins into a server and gathers data from it constantly. The problem that I am having is that my GUI is slow to respond even when using either background worker or a thread. When my application...
Started by Dylan on
, 5 posts
by 5 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
There is a library I can't recall off ....
Also, your thread is on the same cpu/core as the app (same process) so if it uses 100% then even with a lowered priority you might notice a difference .
Try setting Thread.Priority to something lower than the GUI.
|
|
Do you think the new HDUI is sluggish on your receiver(s)?
I am curious as to what you all think about the new HDUI and if you think it's working as expected or if it's sluggish on certain receivers.
The poll is multiple choice.
Started by Scott Kocourek on
, 25 posts
by 24 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at dbstalk):
Things like are as sluggish as they've ever been.....
Also, when deleting a show from the recorded list that sluggish is necessarily the best way to describe them, but they're not quick.
Lists is sluggish, as is pulling up QuickTune.
|
|
1st Gear sluggish?
Is the 2.0 td's 1st gear meant to be sluggish? Accelerate and it just doesnt pull hard at all till about 2 - 3k revs and its off same with 2nd gear and so on
Cheers
Started by LScottB on
, 16 posts
by 6 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at mg-rover):
Will try that mate :D Also....
Trying to rev it through the gears like a petrol won't produce the same results .
First gear is very short on the Derv but then the trick I found with mine was to get into third fairy quickly and then let the turbo do the rest .
|
|
I recently upgraded from Leopard to Snow Leopard on my white Macbook (mid-2007) and immediately noticed a bunch of performance issues:
Finder is a lot slower at displaying the Applications folder. Scrolling through the applications list consistently hangs...
Started by David on
, 10 posts
by 10 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
Okay upon looking at what I can see on your screen, you do have quite a fair bit .
If it's still sluggish.
|
|
I've been programming off and on since 4th grade (for about 20 years). Technology is one of my passions but after working in the field for a couple years out of High School, I spent nine months and $15,000 getting an accredited certificate in music performance...
Started by Anon on
, 16 posts
by 16 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
Recommend: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/ResumeRead.html
So you're not a college grad, eh? Well, to be uber-elitist for a moment, I'll tell you the same thing I told my brother: Rethink ... .
Your resume is typically your bid to get an interview .
|
|
I like ReSharper, but it is a total memory hog. It can quickly swell up and consume a half-gig of RAM without too much effort and bog down the IDE. Does anybody know of any way to configure it to be not as slow?
Started by Todd Williamson on
, 12 posts
by 12 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
Now with 4.1 i do not feel the huge slow down i used ... .
Turn off the on-the-fly compilation (which, unfortunately, is one of its best features)
In previous versions I had the same problem, when 4.0 came out these problems have seemed to have gone away .
|
|
I've recently installed eclipse 3.4 on mac for java and flex coding - I noticed that the eclipse IDE on a mac is much slower than on a PC. By slow, I mean the UI and text editing seems to lag in comparison to eclipse in a windows environment or on a PC...
Started by kevin on
, 5 posts
by 5 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
Mine looks like this:
Note: this is from a Windows version,... .
Try messing with your eclipse.ini file to optimise things (located in your Eclipse installation directory) .
Eclipse switches to a more appropriate GUI API between 3.4 and 3.5 .
Switch to 3.5.
|