Having woken her up, she is often very bleary eyed with no energy and little movement. It takes her quite a time to be fully functional. Are there any settings that reduce the time between waking up and full efficiency?
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I just installed ubuntu 10.4 and when I close my laptop, it does not go to sleep. The hard drive is still on and the computer is still working even after I have closed it.
View 9 Replies View RelatedYesterday, I clean installed the netbook remix of 10.04 , all went well, until I removed the power cable.
While off mains the netbook will randomly sleep, I really can't seem to find a trigger for it.
In the power settings I have changed various options to alter this but nothing seems to affect this.
This machine had xp on previously without a similar problem, so I am ruling out a faulty lid trigger. (Doesn't happen with powered on mains)
I have a Hitachi SimpleDrive (LS-1000-EMEA) it has an "Auto-sleep" function which I believe is controlled by the enclosure itself.The problem I'm having is that when the drive goes to sleep Ubuntu does not seem to be able to wake it up again. I am running Karmic 9.10 as a stripped down install with XBMC as a front-end. I cannot access the drive at all when it does this.
I'm not sure if the problem is that the drive is formatted as NTFS. I notice that when the drive is connected to my Mac or PC it resumes no problem (with a slight delay as the drive gets out of standby) but with Ubuntu it just seems to stop responding. When I reboot the drive is not mounted by Ubuntu. Physically, the blue LED indicator on the drive is frozen (i.e. lit-up) rather than flashing as it normally would. I have to actually unplug (from the mains) and plug it back in for it to work.I have tried using sdparm, but as I say I think the sleep function is controlled by the enclosure and thus sdparm gives me no standby options.
I've been using Ubuntu 10.4 for nearly a month now and am very happy with it, especially the ability to add and upgrade programmes which up till now was a nightmare with worries about dependencies etc. I do have one major gripe, and that is Firefox 3.6.3. I gather others have had the same problem. At start-up Firefox works fine, but after about 12 hours, it becomes so sluggish as to be unusable. Web pages that would take seconds to download now take minutes and the hard drive starts churning and grinding away. The whole system becomes slow and sluggish, and when I do a "top", Firefox is right at the top. Very often the only way to get out of this is to physically turn the machine off and then back on again, which I know is a bad thing.
Its not as if I am overloading Ubuntu. The last time I had to switch the PC off, all I had running were 2 terminals, a calculator and gedit. Firefox was running about 10 tabs. Even when I do a kill -9 pid on firefox and then restart it, within minutes, the system is grinding away and slowing down. The only way to remedy this is to switch the PC off. Someone else who had this problem says its as is Firefox is getting tired and needs to refresh itself completely. Is there any solution to this problem as I gather others have been experiencing it.
Down graded from ubuntu 10 because of phy0 using to much CPU power for no reason machine is sluggish, now it has become worst using Ubuntu 9.10.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI put power settings to never, but the screen still goes to sleep and moving the mouse you have to login.What I really want is no login screen, and I suppose if you were watching a vid it would go dark?
View 2 Replies View RelatedThese are the problems that I have observed:
1. Slow responding to clicks - Test in Mouse Preferences demonstrates it readily; the light bulb does not always light up on first click.
2. Activation of alternate window takes more than one click
3. Click on scrollbar's botton arrow remains activate and continues to move even when mouse is lifted.
4. Scrollbar randomly remains active after click on scrollbar's middle (floating) button even if mouse is move to the window area.
5. After a click on icon or link, often mouse icon changes to a hand icon and the icon moves with the mouse. Difficulty unloading this action - takes several clicks.
6. Highlighting is difficult to cancel once it starts.
This problems started with an update in 9.10 to X (which I was trying). Make the system very unusable.
I am running 10.04.1 and despite everything I have tried I cannot suss out why my machine is so slow. It runs fine in the other OS installed but in Ubuntu there is a lag to every action, eg if I drag a window it follows about 3 seconds later. Basically everything is delayed for some reason. It is becoming very annoying and I am contemplating a reinstall, could someone please prevent this. The system is running on an old Athlon 2800 and I have attached a screenshot of running processes.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI virtualized XP, and it's rather slow. I allocated 1.5 gb of ram, dynamically expanding storage. When I go to system in control panel, it says my processor is 880 mhz fast. I have an amd64 2.0 dual core.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI was using wicd on a spotty network, the house blocked a lot of the signal from moving around, so wicd was having major issues with that AP. Later I was trying to connect to another AP but wicd couldn't connect plus it was saying the spotty network's name was the one it was connecting to. Although I didn't try before I left/gave up I'm sure a restart of the wicd daemon would have solved it.
But why is this even the case? is there something I could add to the scripts that would clear this issue up? (I also submitted a bug on wicd's launchpad project but haven't gotten any response... I hope this isn't a 'feature')
I was using opensuse kde 11.3 for almost one year. My system is a four-core system and so far was really fast. After upgrading from 11.3 to 11.4 I have noticed that kde(?) is running slow. I can pinpoint exactly the source of the problem but just a few examples.
1. Dolphin takes so much time to load (15 seconds)
2. When I try to do something inside dolphin (like Edit->copy) can take up to 15 seconds to see the menu to appear.
3. Double clicking inside a catalog can take up to 5 seconds
I have same kind of problems with Gwenview. I can not say precisely blame kde, dolphin or gwenview.
I would like to ask your help how can I find what's the problem (any cli command, any log file to check?)
I have updates to latest opensuse 11.4 by using the documentation I found in official opensuse forumes. (Changed the repositories from 11.3 to 11.4)
I've got the new beta working in ubuntu 64 bit lucid 10.4. But, I have to go to admin/sys monitor and end the boxee "sleeping" process B4 it will start again after exiting The app? Id sure like to fix it.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI had perfectly working Ubuntu 10.04 system, Last night I tried to upgrade to 10.10 and things did not worked quit well. Before upgrade I took backup of complete system using remastersys on DVD. So I restored my system using that backup and everything was same as before expect one thing and that is my graphics. I am using ati raedon graphics card. Its drivers are install via jokey but I cant enable desktop effects. I tried re-installing drivers but that did not helped.
View 1 Replies View RelatedSince support for 8.04 LTS will be ending soon, I decided to move up to 10.04 LTS. On my old Thinkpad A20m laptop, the install went well, and everything seemed to work except the middle trackpoint button. Fixed that easily by editing a conf file. Then I began to notice some problems; all power management options (suspend, idle timers, etc) have no effect. I checked the startup logs and it seems that ACPI was not loading due to my aged bios (yes it's the newest version available). I tried using acpi=force in the boot options, and viola: power management is working. But that made two other problems crop up.
Problem 2: Since using acpi=force, the laptop runs so hot it sometimes gets sluggish and locks up. I tried installing "thinkfan" from
the ubuntu repositories to have some way of easily changing the fan behavior(which I believe relies on ACPI in some fashion). No luck there. ACPI seems to not see my fan at all, and it only kicks on when the bios high temp failsafe is tripped. I should also mention I am using Xubuntu (for the lighter desktop). I'm still kind of an Ubuntu-noob, so I wasn't sure what other info to post.
I am currently running 11.04 on my desktop replacing laptop. It has nvidia gtx460 graphics and I'm using the suggested nvidia propietary driver. I was trying out Unity, I didn't like it too much, so I switched to Ubuntu Classic. However, I feel the performance is rather sluggish, in matters such as moving windows and such. For example, even Docky is not fluently moved upon. I wonder whether I should turn some shaders off or what to do. I chose Ubuntu (no effects) with the thought of turning on only the effects I use, such as Desktop Cube, but it doesn't seem to work here (it does in Classic, though it only has 2 desktops there, so it's more of a Rotate Plane). Have any af you had these issues ?
View 1 Replies View RelatedAssume: 1) Multi-cpu environment 2) Process that gets interrupted, is the same process that executes the interrupt handler, so I guess technically nothing gets interrupted except what the process was doing before, but it is still executing as it is executing the handler. 3) There is no top or bottom half, when an interrupt takes place the handler is invoked, executes, then return from interrupt, simple as that.
Why would sleeping the handler (puts in sleep queue, context switch to next runnable process) be a bad idea?
I would like to mount my mp3 player (sdb) without waking up the sleeping SATA disk sda. Attaching mp3 player does not wake sda up, but mounting it does. My system is mostly Slackware 11, so I'm still on kernel 2.4.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI recently noticed that the menus and dropdowns in Firefox 3.6 were *extremely* sluggish on my laptop running Slackware64-current. For example, if I click on "File..." or one of the folders on my quicklinks toolbar, the menus take about a second to appear. No other apps are affected and surfing is as fast as usual.I'm running Slackware64-current on a Fujitsu Lifebook V700. I typically use the Xfce window manager, but was able to repeat the problem in Blackbox.
I uninstalled the Firefox 3.6 package from -current and reinstalled the Firefox 3.5.2 package from the slacware64-13 tree and it works fine.I've been scanning the net for others having this same problem and to my utter shock I can't seem to find anyone else reporting remotely the same problem!I'm fine using Firefox 3.5.2 indefinitely, but it's driving me nuts that I can't figure out the source of this problem!
I have lots of 720p MKV files which play fine on VLC and/or mplayer. These are the two players I know. Whenever I try to play a 1080p file, the video is sluggish and quickly desynchronizes from the audio (mplayer) or the sound is choppy (vlc). This is because one CPU cannot decode a 1080p x264 video. Not powerful enough. Now, I have a Q6600, with 4 cores. Options in mplayer and VLC to use more than one decoding thread don't seem to do anything at this date, as one core is only user (reported by TOP).
View 9 Replies View RelatedMy sister's laptop (toshiba satellite l550 running lucid) often runs really, really slow, even after a fresh install. Going through the gnome main menu, everything just lags by several seconds. Closing applications often takes a while, etc. I've run top and iostat to determine what the problem is and it seems to be IO-related. User processes and system processes don't take up more than a few percent, but the average load is usually over 2 even when I'm barely doing anything. Top shows that, whenever everything slows down, the 'wait' criterion is pretty high.
Now, I've also tried installing lucid to an external USB hard drive and that works fine. I'm currently running the S.M.A.R.T. diagnostic and so far I've got the attached screenshot to show. Only the criterion shown and the 'current pending sector count' are showing warnings.Any thoughts? Could the performance issue be related to the hard drive warning? I'm not planning to replace the hard drive just yet, because this laptop still has a two-year warranty.
I'm having a problem with krusader. When I open and close it, it remains with a sleep status. This can be verified by the system monitor and by the "ps aux". The krusader only go away if I use killall. This is occurring in more than one machine. I'm using squeeze gnome 64 bits.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm working on a problem in which i have to implement the regular sleeping barber problem with multiple (say n) barbers. The code i'm using is this :
#include<stdio.h>
#include<stdlib.h>
#include<unistd.h>
#include<pthread.h>
#include<errno.h>
#include<sys/ipc.h>
#include<semaphore.h>
[Code]...
how to implement the modification? (there are many more such modifications where i'm stuck , but will ask about those later)
configured myself a NAS, which is infrequently accessed, so I set the standby timer of the disks to 241 (30 minutes) using hdparm.
for i in /dev/sd?; do
hdparm -S 241 $i > /dev/null
done
[code]....
I have a problem with my Debian squeeze system. After I have run some CPU-intensive application for a while the system becomes sluggish. Ok, maybe one would expect that. But. The system remains sluggish even after that process has been killed and then top shows high cpu usage from unrelated processes and a high %sy percentage as well. I don't really know where to begin solving this problem except I've checked that this is specifically related to (at least) CPU use as opposed to heavy memory use or IO (by running an application with low mem/no io but high cpu use). I am running the latest standard kernel from squeeze, 2.6.32-5-686. Also, thing is, I remember having similar problems with other Linux distros before, where for example gzipping a large file would cause the same. I did not have similar problems on {Net,Open}BSD, so a hardware fault seems an unlikely reason to me.
View 7 Replies View RelatedClick on scrollbar. Drag down. Watch text crawl by in fits and starts. Don't even think about using the scroll wheel. And this, on a one page RTF document. With no special characters or images or anything.
I tried the instruction here: [URL] It did nothing. How can I make Abiword usable? It doesn't have to be lightning fast, all I want is for it to scroll at the same speed and with the same responsiveness as all my other applications.
I have a computer on my network being extremely sluggish and I cannot find the reason why. I can ping and the response time is decent enough at 0.137ms up until something that requires network access is run(cvs, SSH, ls on mounted drives). At that point the ping jumps up to 6000ms, sometimes up to 12000ms.
I have looked through /var/log/messages and found nothing suspicious and I have not seen any problems on other networked computers when accessing the shares. Disk usage on this computer is fine(470GB free) and memory is fine as well(up to 10GB free). The computer is on CentOS 5.3.
I've created an LiveUSB disk with the USBcreator method in Windows 7.Now the the image is copied succesfully and the USB key is bootable.However when the boot window popsup and I select the verify & boot option, a graphical loading window comes up and right after that the system halts with the error message "Sleeping forever".What am I doing wrong? Or what is Fedora doing wrong with their LiveCD to USB media?I've did a forum search and the exact same issue is described in this thread[URL]
View 5 Replies View RelatedI often run calculations on my Linux computer, which cause my X server to crash from time to time. Almost always, some programs seem to survive to the crash and are in an interruptible sleeping state, for example:29315 ? Sl 54:35 /home/kashim/Desktop/anylogic/anylogic -vmargs -Xmx1024MIs there a way to reconnect these applications with the new X server?
View 1 Replies View RelatedIt's been a while now I've been experiencing an annoying issue with F12. The thing is that after the machine resumes from suspend (which is otherwise a perfect procedure), video performance (and sometimes audio, through Rhythmbox) reduces and videos play sluggishly. Rebooting the system fixes the issue.
Is there a solution for this behavior (other than rebooting)? Here are the details of my system: F12 x86_64 on an ATI graphics powered machine (Radeon HD3200) which obviously uses the free drivers mesa-drivers-dri-experimental which, otherwise work perfect on this hardware.
