Julia Running slow

[edsned]

I have a fairly new Dell laptop (3m?) upon which I loaded Mint 9 as dual boot with Windows 7 when I first got it. All worked fine and I was very happy with it, albeit I didn't actually use it that much.

I then upgraded to Mint 10 Julia, largely because the user interface looked nicer still, and because I read that the suspend issue I had I had would go. I upgraded by making a new LiveUSB rather than using the package manager and all went well - everything seems to work flawlessly and I love the look of it. At the time, I confidently did away with the dual boot and have no regrets.

However, I'm sure it's running slower than Mint 9? I don't exactly tax the computer much, mainly using it for OpenOffice documents, Firefox and Darkroom - but it seems to take much longer to open applications (such as OpenOffice)? not hours, but definitely a good few seconds more than it did before.

why is this? what can I do to speed it up a bit?

Thanks

[Dave68]

When you run from Live Media, whether it be Live CD or Live USB with persistence, you will find that it will run somewhat slower.

With a direct install, it takes less time for the system to run the required processes. While using live media, it only runs as fast as your USB Port or CD Drive.

I've actually found Julia to be somewhat faster than Isadora, but I still use LMDE as my Primary OS.

Hope This Helps,
Dave

[edsned]

apologies, I should add that having created a LiveUSB, I installed Julia on the computer, replacing the dual boot and Isadore. Hence not now running off the USB.

Ed

[Dave68]

I want to make sure I understand.

You have created a Live USB from which you installed Julia as the only OS on your system?

If this is correct, please submit your output for:

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inxi -F

This will show system specs and usage.

You might check what Processes are Starting Up at Boot. I believe you can find that in Mint Menu->Prefereces->Startup Applications.

Thanks,
Dave

[edsned]

Apologies for being vague (I'm a complete novice to all this), but yes, that is exactly what I've done.

I'll check the output you suggest tonight & return tomorrow (computer is at home where I don't have internet...)

Thanks

[edsned]

Right, forgive me but I don't know how to copy the output the way you all do, so here it is pasted from a notepad:

$ inxi -f
CPU: Dual core AMD Athlon II Neo K325 (-MCP-) cache 2048 KB
Clock Speeds: (1) 800.00 MHz (2) 800.00 MHz
CPU Flags fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr
sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc nonstop_tsc extd_apicid pni monitor cx16
popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs skinit wdt nodeid_msr npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save

I also did Top, as I saw someone else recommend that for info on another thread - not sure it it's helpful/relevant:

top - 21:00:35 up 9 min, 2 users, load average: 0.25, 0.48, 0.27
Tasks: 174 total, 2 running, 171 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie
Cpu(s): 5.2%us, 1.9%sy, 0.0%ni, 92.8%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 1800652k total, 668296k used, 1132356k free, 38772k buffers


PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
1094 root 20 0 43896 17m 9820 R 9 1.0 0:19.28 Xorg
1929 ed 20 0 92220 13m 10m S 5 0.8 0:01.43 gnome-terminal
1712 ed 20 0 75012 25m 8336 S 2 1.5 0:08.57 compiz
2121 ed 20 0 201m 77m 56m S 0 4.4 0:06.74 soffice.bin
9 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.06 events/0
10 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.10 events/1
52 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.25 kondemand/1
319 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.11 kslowd000
1841 ed 20 0 29004 9504 7568 S 0 0.5 0:00.44 gtk-window-deco
2189 ed 20 0 2624 1136 832 R 0 0.1 0:00.14 top
1 root 20 0 2892 1680 1208 S 0 0.1 0:00.52 init
2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd
3 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.05 ksoftirqd/0
4 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0
5 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0
6 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/1
7 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.01 ksoftirqd/1
8 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/1
11 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 cpuset
12 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper
13 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 netns
14 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 async/mgr
15 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 pm
17 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 sync_supers
18 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 bdi-default
19 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kintegrityd/0
20 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kintegrityd/1
21 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.02 kblockd/0
22 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kblockd/1
23 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid
24 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpi_notify
25 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpi_hotplug
26 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ata_aux
27 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ata_sff/0

Lastly, I looked at what processes are starting up at Startup as you suggested, and it seems there are loads, so perhaps that's the first place to start. Problem is I don't know what half/most of them do, so I guess need to do some experimenting. Are there any I definitely shouldn't turn off?
this is what is starting:
Bluetooth Manger
Certificate & Key Storage
GNOME Login Sound
GSettings Data Conversion
mintUpdate
mintUpload
mintWelcome
Network Manager
Power Manager
Print Queue Applet
PulseAudio Sound System
PulseAudio Sound System KDE Routing Policy
Remote Desktop
Sectret Storage Service
SSH Ket Agent
User folders update
Visual Assistance

Given I primarily only use 3 applications at the moment (Firefox, OpenOffice (Word & spreadsheet) and Darkroom), I suspect I could safetly turn many/most of those off.

Also (sorry to ask so many stupid questions), but could you tell me in 1-2 lines what the Compiz / CompizConfig is/does?

Many thanks for all your help

Ed