Hi, Are you using Nepomuk, beagled or another similar daemon? those "guys" can affect your system desktop performance. As GlenB says kernel and desktop version are a very useful information too
Best Regards Juan -- Mi nueva dirección es: - My new email address is: - Mon nouveau email est: j...@elsotanillo.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Usuario Linux Registrado: #257202 http://www.elsotanillo.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2011/6/14 Glen Batchelor <webmas...@all-spec.com>: > > > Which kernel are you using? 'uname -r' > Which desktop system are you using? > > > GlenB > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Aniruddha [mailto:mailingdotl...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 10:51 AM >> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >> Subject: Re: Desktop performance problem >> >> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Juan Sierra Pons <j...@elsotanillo.net> >> wrote: >> > Hi >> > >> > This can be an I/O and/or CPU problem >> > As a workaround you can use: >> > - ionice - get/set program io scheduling class and priority for I/O >> problem >> > - nice - run a program with modified scheduling priority for CPU problem >> > >> > To adjust scheduling priority of the offending process. >> >> Thanks for help! When I monitor with htop there are no processes above >> 5% during unpacking/copying. I have fairly fast hardware ( Intel Core >> i7-2600, 8 GB DDR3, samsung 7200 rpm), which shouldn't be the problem >> especially since the same hardware works fine in Funtoo. I suspect >> that the problem is that Debian (kernel) configuration is optimized >> for servers not desktop. I'm interested to learn which (kernel) >> options need to be changed in order to increase performance in Debian. >> I have no interesting messages in the logs, is there additional >> information I can provide? >> >> >> -- >> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org >> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact >> listmas...@lists.debian.org >> Archive: >> http://lists.debian.org/BANLkTinhPssQ2ZQJiL+7V=mtraid6...@mail.gmail.com > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/63FED6463B3C48FE9AAE213A086FF13C@Glen > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/BANLkTinoh=jdtazsofzmzl2p5dbypyd...@mail.gmail.com