[Cialug] Speeding up Ubuntu 13.10 on my Dell Latitude

[Ralph Kessel]

I update my Dell Latitude to 64meg  Ubuntu 13.10 and I am sad to say that it is a dog. I don't want to go back to an earliear release but could somebody please suggest some actions I might take to speed it up.
From dmesg:












/usr/bin/hp-config_usb_printer 002:002 ; fi'' [373] terminated by signal 9 (Killed)
[   58.991013] WARNING! power/level is deprecated; use power/control instead
[   59.006582] usblp 2-2:1.1: usblp1: USB Bidirectional printer dev 2 if 1 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x03F0 pid 0x5D12
[   59.007107] usblp 2-2:1.2: usblp2: USB Bidirectional printer dev 2 if 2 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x03F0 pid 0x5D12
[   59.009276] usbcore: registered new interface driver usblp
[   62.401572] bio: create slab <bio-1> at 1
[   64.288760] FAT-fs (sdc1): Volume was not properly unmounted. Some data may be corrupt. Please run fsck.
[   64.293661] FAT-fs (sdb1): Volume was not properly unmounted. Some data may be corrupt. Please run fsck.
[   64.298266] FAT-fs (sde1): Volume was not properly unmounted. Some data may be corrupt. Please run fsck.
[   64.558012] init: ureadahead-other main process (2512) terminated with status 2
[   78.647245] Adding 1037308k swap on /dev/mapper/cryptswap1.  Priority:-1 extents:1 across:1037308k FS
[  411.156196] systemd-hostnamed[3081]: Warning: nss-myhostname is not installed. Changing the local hostname might make it unresolveable. Please install nss-myhostname!
[  759.111100] perf samples too long (2516 > 2500), lowering kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 50000
Everybody have a health and happy new year.
Thanks alot,
Ralph Kessel