Re: Issues with Ubuntu 12.04 LTR

On 8/02/2014 5:33 am, [email protected] wrote:
> I have a Lenovo thinkpad with an Intel Core 2 Duo T5870 2.00 Ghz with a GM
> 45 Chipset with 8 Gig of DDR III Ram
>
> Since I installed 12.04 LTR my lappy has slowed down and there appears to
> be memory issues, I am not able to open as many tabs as I was in the
> previous release 11.04
>
> Facebook jams up and I am unable to use Google DOCS, could someone please
> suggest a way forward, and some diagnostic tests that I could run to pin
> point the issue.
>
> I have been considering getting an SSD drive and a new main board as one of
> the USB ports is non functional.
>
> Any assistance would be greatly appreciated as I have a mountain of
> research and assessments to do.
FWIW I put a kingston flash into 2 machines, a lap top and a desktop 
machine both running SuSE 12.[23] both with fstab options including 
'discard'
I'm glad I did the laptop.
The desktop machine, including mythbackend, showed no subjective 
performance advantage even though myth makes heavy use of mysql. The 
flash reached it's useby, running 24/7 after 2 years. It failed 
dramatically and the only recovery was a complete reinstall and restore 
from backups. All along smart reported ALL GOOD.

The big advantage is you may have one rotating disk and as many flask 
disks as you want.
http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Classes/838/Fall2001/Papers/scsi-ata.pdf
And for the detractors I guess that it's worse now than ever!

James
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