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deepakdeshp
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by deepakdeshp » Thu Oct 11, 2018 6:04 am
Hello,
This is a system belonging to my relatives and is extremely slow. Booting takes 15 minutes, even all the other operations like typing are slow. The characters appear on the screen after a delay of a few seconds. The cpu is core 2 duo, I tested the same live usb on a system with dual core intel cpu. That system was 10 times faster than this core 2 duo system.memtest runs all right. What else could I test and tune for it to get a better performance?
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inxi -Fxz
System: Host: uma-HP Kernel: 4.15.0-36-generic x86_64 bits: 64 gcc: 7.3.0
Desktop: Cinnamon 3.8.9 (Gtk 3.22.30-1ubuntu1)
Distro: Linux Mint 19 Tara
Machine: Device: laptop System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP ProBook 4510s v: F.03 serial: N/A
Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 3072 v: KBC Version 24.0B serial: N/A
BIOS: Hewlett-Packard v: 68PZI Ver. F.03 date: 04/03/2009
Battery BAT0: charge: 2.9 Wh 5.6% condition: 52.0/63.4 Wh (82%)
model: Hewlett-Packard Primary status: Charging
CPU: Dual core Intel Core2 Duo T6570 (-MCP-)
arch: Penryn rev.10 cache: 2048 KB
flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 8378
clock speeds: max: 2101 MHz 1: 1196 MHz 2: 1196 MHz
Graphics: Card: Intel Mobile 4 Series Integrated Graphics Controller
bus-ID: 00:02.0
Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.6 )
drivers: modesetting (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
Resolution: 1366x768@59.97hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Mobile Intel GM45 Express
version: 2.1 Mesa 18.0.5 Direct Render: Yes
Audio: Card Intel 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller
driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.15.0-36-generic
Network: Card-1: Intel PRO/Wireless 5100 AGN [Shiloh] Network Connection
driver: iwlwifi bus-ID: 02:00.0
IF: wls1 state: up mac: <filter>
Card-2: Marvell 88E8072 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller
driver: sky2 v: 1.30 port: 2000 bus-ID: 85:00.0
IF: ens5 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives: HDD Total Size: 320.1GB (4.8% used)
ID-1: /dev/sda model: WDC_WD3200BEVT size: 320.1GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 282G used: 15G (6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
RAID: No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 37.0C mobo: 16.0C
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info: Processes: 179 Uptime: 49 min Memory: 652.6/3845.7MB
Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 7.3.0
Client: Shell (bash 4.4.191) inxi: 2.3.56
uma@uma-HP:~$ free -m
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 3845 631 2313 60 901 2932
Swap: 2047 0 2047
Thanks for any suggestions.
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by catweazel » Thu Oct 11, 2018 6:16 am
deepakdeshp wrote: ⤴ Thu Oct 11, 2018 6:04 am
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BIOS: Hewlett-Packard v: 68PZI Ver. F.03 date: 04/03/2009
That will likely be the problem. It's old, and LM 19 + old don't go together too well.
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by kukamuumuka » Thu Oct 11, 2018 11:43 am
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deepakdeshp
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by deepakdeshp » Thu Oct 11, 2018 3:59 pm
catweazel wrote: ⤴ Thu Oct 11, 2018 6:16 am
deepakdeshp wrote: ⤴ Thu Oct 11, 2018 6:04 am
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BIOS: Hewlett-Packard v: 68PZI Ver. F.03 date: 04/03/2009
That will likely be the problem. It's old, and LM 19 + old don't go together too well.
It's not a dual boot system. I think Mint can't update the BIOS..
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by JerryF » Thu Oct 11, 2018 4:47 pm
On HP's website, there is an update to the BIOS that is FreeDOS bootable:
ROMPaq for HP Notebook System BIOS (68PZI) – FreeDOS Bootable Media, version F.18 Jan 11, 2011
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by deepakdeshp » Tue Oct 16, 2018 12:09 pm
catweazel wrote: ⤴ Thu Oct 11, 2018 6:16 am
deepakdeshp wrote: ⤴ Thu Oct 11, 2018 6:04 am
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BIOS: Hewlett-Packard v: 68PZI Ver. F.03 date: 04/03/2009
That will likely be the problem. It's old, and LM 19 + old don't go together too well.
Thats a good suggestion , the solution has been very unlikely yet it works
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by deepakdeshp » Tue Oct 16, 2018 12:10 pm
The laptop power adapter was changed and the problem disappeared !
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deepakdeshp
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by deepakdeshp » Tue Oct 16, 2018 12:11 pm
JerryF wrote: ⤴ Thu Oct 11, 2018 4:47 pm
On HP's website, there is an update to the BIOS that is FreeDOS bootable:
ROMPaq for HP Notebook System BIOS (68PZI) – FreeDOS Bootable Media, version F.18 Jan 11, 2011
Thanks for the suggestion. As the original problem is solved , I dont want to experiment something which may brick the machine.
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by deepakdeshp » Tue Oct 16, 2018 12:14 pm
Its a newly installed system.
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top - 21:43:33 up 28 min, 1 user, load average: 0.76, 0.89, 0.80
Tasks: 196 total, 2 running, 148 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 7.8 us, 3.3 sy, 0.0 ni, 88.0 id, 0.8 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st
KiB Mem : 3937832 total, 947336 free, 1059808 used, 1930688 buff/cache
KiB Swap: 2097148 total, 2097148 free, 0 used. 2518300 avail Mem
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
4003 uma 20 0 1806116 152352 97396 S 6.6 3.9 1:14.08 chromium-b+
1425 uma 20 0 3006908 171668 62176 S 4.0 4.4 1:01.56 cinnamon
1909 uma 20 0 1223744 132824 54000 R 4.0 3.4 0:50.93 chromium-b+
1866 uma 20 0 2053424 195420 116756 S 3.0 5.0 1:00.92 chromium-b+
914 root 20 0 397376 67320 34376 S 2.0 1.7 0:39.77 Xorg
780 root 20 0 269696 5988 5240 S 1.0 0.2 0:11.55 iio-sensor+
4243 uma 20 0 44076 4032 3404 R 0.7 0.1 0:00.05 top
1444 uma 20 0 1081556 53164 33948 S 0.3 1.4 0:01.62 nemo-deskt+
3248 uma 20 0 1587640 151744 87860 S 0.3 3.9 0:33.98 chromium-b+
4056 uma 20 0 685396 47236 34372 S 0.3 1.2 0:00.20 skypeforli+
4180 root 20 0 0 0 0 I 0.3 0.0 0:00.30 kworker/u8+
1 root 20 0 159856 9224 6820 S 0.0 0.2 0:03.12 systemd
2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd
3 root 0 -20 0 0 0 I 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 rcu_gp
4 root 0 -20 0 0 0 I 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 rcu_par_gp
6 root 0 -20 0 0 0 I 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kworker/0:+
8 root 0 -20 0 0 0 I 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 mm_percpu_+
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