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Lenny - System slow down

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Hi..

I had been using debian4.0 and now did a fresh installation of Lenny.
Etch was working perfectly fine for me. But lenny has left me with a
slow system. Video is framing , sound breaking in between (only with video),
like more IO wait if i open or close a window.
System is working like having a low RAM ( mine is 1GB ) .
Sometimes scrolling in iceweasel and even switching to a new tab takes time ..

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Re: Lenny - System slow down

Submitted by 1 on Thu, 2009-03-12 05:43.

Did you notice anything unusual using top?
If you don't know about it, type 'top' in console and check out the head of the list for processes which may have been hogging your ressources (cpu and/or ram).

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Re: Lenny - System slow down

Submitted by farmerjohn on Fri, 2009-08-07 14:37.

I have the same issues. I upgraded to Lenny just a couple of weeks ago because I wanted to use the latest openOffice, eclipse, and other programming stuff.

Nothing is unusual using top.

The system seems stable until...
... you start pidgin - pretty bad
... you work with evolution - not so bad but slower, even stops for a second or two periodically, every 5-10 seconds
... you suspend the laptop, it never ever wakes up correctly. It's SLOW as molasses after suspend, it won't shutdown, terminal, system monitor, epiphany will come up but evolution will not. Terminal takes around ten seconds to launch, epiphany around thirty to sixty.

I'm running kernel 2.6.26-2-686 on an Intel CeleronM at 1.5GHz, 516M Ram with 176 used, load averages are 0.20, 0.20, 0.15. There are tons of unnecessary modules, right off the bat I should get rid of bluetooth... My machine supposedly exceeds all the benchmarks for the CeleronM1.5G processor.

- farmerjohn

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Re: Lenny - System slow down

Submitted by farmerjohn on Wed, 2009-08-12 07:33.

Hmm. I've discovered that if I leave the wireless turned off, it reboots in < 30s, otherwise, it reboots in around 90s. It also runs MUCH faster when not using wireless. I haven't compared this with the wired connection.

So at least, my problem is dependent upon the BCM 43xx drivers, or simply just being on the net.

- farmerjohn

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