[Cialug] Speeding up Ubuntu 13.10 on my Dell Latitude

[Ralph Kessel]

I wish to thank everyone for their useful suggestions.  There is much to think about. However I went back to Ubuntu 12.04 with much success and it is working well.

Have a happy new year all.





On Friday, January 3, 2014 8:50 AM, Kevin Smith <kevin at linuxsmith.com> wrote:
 
I suggest a fresh install. I upgraded one and it was very slow. A fresh
install fixed my performance issues.

On Jan 2, 2014 3:03 PM, "Ralph Kessel" <ralphkessel75 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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:
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> /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
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