Ubuntu

Not enough RAM?

Asked by John Wilson

Recently I have noticed my computer seems to have slowed down and when saving documents/files the window greys over and hangs up for a few seconds.
Also internet access with Firefox has slowed down.
Here is what I have gleaned about my system:
Using Ubuntu 13.1
Memory 5.8GB
Processor Intel Core i3.2120CPU 3.3GHzX4
OS 32 bit
Disk 710.7GB
Memory size 6144MB

Any help would be appreciated

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Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty (hamishmb) said : 		#1

That's more than enough ram :) What are your graphics cards specs?

Thx

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John Wilson (jwilsondmartin) said : 		#2

I looked in the box and cannot see a graphics card so I guess it is integrated into the mother board.
According to System Settings I have a Goldstar Company Ltd 23" monitor
The resolution is 1920X1080, rotation is normal, laucher is placed on all displays and sticky edges are on

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John Wilson (jwilsondmartin) said : 		#3

The computer is just over 3 years old

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michael (yellupcm-gmail) said : 		#4

sudo lshw -C video

This is terminal code to tell graphics card.

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John Wilson (jwilsondmartin) said : 		#5

Thank you for your help
Here is the output:
john@john-p7-1109:~$ sudo lshw -C video
  *-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
       version: 09
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
       resources: irq:44 memory:fe000000-fe3fffff memory:c0000000-cfffffff ioport:f000(size=64)
john@john-p7-1109:~$

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#6

If you run:

sudo apt-get install gnome-shell

(Keep lightdm when prompted) then log off and login to the gnome shell session. Is it better?

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John Wilson (jwilsondmartin) said : 		#7

Much better
Thank you

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John Wilson (jwilsondmartin) said : 		#8

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#9

Imho, Compiz is a complete joke. You are now using Mutter which is a hell of a lot more stable.