Performance Improvements

[Net Llama!]

On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, James McDonald wrote:
>
>> Its hard to comment as you haevn't really said what isn't snappy enough.
>> Its quite possible that you've got it as good as it gets right now based
>> on your hardware.  Which distro are you running?
>>
>
> I'm using Ubuntu Edgy. Programs such as GQView take a long time to redraw
> jpegs. OpenOffice is traditionally slow to load but I wouldn't mind if it
> was a bit more peppy. Web browsing using Firefox isn't as snappy as it
> once was.

I suspect that you're hitting different bottlenecks for each of those. 
JPG redraw time is likely controlled by the graphics card you're usingn 
(and potentially its X driver).

OOo startup time is mostly disk + CPU time.

Web browsing could be network, plus extensions, plus history, plus 
X/driver + CPU speed.

>
> I think perhaps I need a new computer but I got married and now a bathroom
> is more important than my Linux box... sigh.

Yea, that whole marriage thing can be a problem.  ;)

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