Speed Issues

[Alex]

When I first installed LL a few months ago I was impressed by its speed both on and off line. Since then there seems to have been an apparent slow down in speed, even in the time it takes to log in. In the old days with Win Xp this effect usually meant that the system needed a spyware/adware clean-up and a defrag session.

As I understand Linux systems both of these operations are not necessary - so, what might be slowing down my operations?

I did a system report, but it is double-speak to me and for some reason it was published as a html document in my browser ? I copied it onto a LO document (20 pages!)

Any ideas?

[bitsnpcs]

Hello Alex,

have you tried running Lite Cleaner ?

[Alex]

Yes i use it frequently - it does not seem to influence speed in any way; should it?

[bitsnpcs]

Hello Alex,

it may have helped by cleaning the specific areas if they had been the issue.

Hopefully someone will have more ideas for you to try soon.

[Valtam]

I did a system report, but it is double-speak to me and for some reason it was published as a html document in my browser ? I copied it onto a LO document (20 pages!)

https://www.freecinema2022.gq/manual/hardware.html#report

[riser]

I suggest you review the space available on each partition.  I have been using Linux Lite and similar distros for years, and never noticed a slowdown unless a partition gets too filled up (not healthy for Linux filesystems).

If you do have a partition that is full, cleaning it up can help.  If it does not, you may need to back up the data, format it, and restore the data to reset the inode metadata.

Also, check amount of memory used.  You may have runaway process(es) that use swap space if configured to do so.

[shengchieh]

From my website (signature), I have

http://rudd-o.com/archives/2007/10/02/ta...-fix-that/ (Tales from responsivenessland: why Linux feels slow, and how to fix that)
http://tree.celinuxforum.org/CelfPubWiki...eResources (bootup; CELF Technology/Project)
http://lifehacker.com/software/linux/mak...333798.php (Slim Down and Speed Up Linux)
http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Speed_Up_Linux (Speed Up Linux)
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/t...ls/6800/1/ (What's Bogging Down Your Linux PC? Tracking Down Resource Hogs; 7/21/09)
http://tuxradar.com/content/make-linux-f...nd-lighter (Make Linux faster and lighter; 10/30/09)

Sheng-Chieh

[Alex]

Thanks for all the links, shengchieh! I found all of them a little hard to follow for my level of Linux expertize (<0). If someone could put all of those suggestions into a GUI interface maybe I could follow simple instructions.

[shengchieh]

Sorry for the delay - my brother's family were here this weekend.

I looked the links closely.  Let's try the advice on this one.

What's Bogging Down Your Linux PC? Tracking Down Resource Hogs
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/t...ls/6800/1/

Open up a terminal and type top.  Note you can move the "cursor" using the right/left arrow.  Do so and let it adjust by mem, cpu, etc.  And see the process name on the right.
To kill a process, do

pkill [name of process]

OR

kill [process ID]

Do

man pkill
man kill

to learn off these two commands.

Sheng-Chieh