Maddy,
If I am not mistaken, are you loading linux mint via VirtualBox? If so, this could be the reason you are having the issues you do?
Here are a few questions for you.
1. Do you have linux installed on your local HD?
2) What are the specs of your system?
3) If installed on your hd, is it dual booted on one HD or installed on a separate drive?
4) What are your Virtualbox settings? (i.e memory, storage space, video, etc)
Linux mint should not have any issues when it comes to speed, however it does depend on the speed of your processor, hard drive and how you have it setup in vbox. I have mine installed on a quad AMD 3.5 processor, with 16gigs of memory and a I gig video card. Even when running in VBox, I have those settings as high as I can. 8 gig of mem and I make sure to chose all four processors. I also have a terabyte of Hard drive space.
If you have the ability to install directly on your hard drive I would suggest that, even if it means you have to purchase another drive to put it on, so you don't have to erase the current setup you have.
maddy_lakshmanan wrote:Hey Guys, I am new to Unix/LinuxMint. I installed KDE Linux Mint 14 in my Windows 7 laptop. Everything was fast for three weeks. When I installed tomcat last week and started my application, it takes 20-30 minutes for it to load the home page. I saw the posting that Linux Mint 14 has performance issues
http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2234, and it got fixed in 14.1
When I run the following command, it says the version is 14 (and not 14.1). How do I download the new version? How to find the performance issue? I ran the top command and didn't see any process taking too much memory or CPU. Your help is highly appreciated.
I have attached my settings
mlakshma@mlakshma-VirtualBox ~ $ cat /etc/linuxmint/info
RELEASE=14
CODENAME=nadia
EDITION="KDE 64-bit"
DESCRIPTION="Linux Mint 14 Nadia"
DESKTOP=KDE
TOOLKIT=QT
NEW_FEATURES_URL=
http://www.linuxmint.com/rel_nadia_kde_whatsnew.php
RELEASE_NOTES_URL=
http://www.linuxmint.com/rel_nadia_kde.php
USER_GUIDE_URL=
http://www.linuxmint.com/documentation.php
GRUB_TITLE=Linux Mint 14 KDE 64-bit
I have the tomcat running and I checked the free memory
mlakshma@mlakshma-VirtualBox ~ $ free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 2003 1281 722 0 65 491
-/+ buffers/cache: 724 1278