<SOLVED> Increasing speed Sluggish computer [Firefox]

[Newlife]

My pc is a Dell GX280 with dual boot, XP and PCLOS.  All has gone well ---

I have  latest PCLOS installed with all updates. However, for a week or so, I notice, especially when using Firefox in linux, the computer runs is slower and slower, as though my 1 gig of RAM is not enough. I have shut down and rebooted with no improvement.

The Intel cpu is 2.8 mhz and 1 gig of RAM, and never had a problem like this before.

At the moment I am using XP and do not have the speed problem; it seems to be only with PCLOS.

Any suggestions???

newlife

[scoundrel]

Hi Newlife .. could you please specify which latest PCLOS ?  the 09.2 ?

[Mike]

I have a Dell GX270 with the same ram and cpu, running beta2. The system has been up several days straight with no problems so far. 
You could have a connection problem, if it only happens while browsing the web. I've seen some of that lately...You might try using Opera as a test, to see if its the browser
or the web speed..hope that helps some..
Information that Scoundrel asked for would give him better information to help you too..  

[Newlife]

I am running PCLOS 2009.2

The problem seems to be Firefox. No problem with Opera.

I even took out FF 3.5.6 and I am entering this with FF 2 and still have the problem .

When I click on bookmarks, etc. I wait and wait for them to drop down. Closing the browser takes a while.

This happens with everything I click on....

No problems typing this or with Open Office, etc.  just seems to be Firefox.

N

[menotu]

I am running PCLOS 2009.2

The problem seems to be Firefox. No problem with Opera.

I even took out FF 3.5.6 and I am entering this with FF 2 and still have the problem .

When I click on bookmarks, etc. I wait and wait for them to drop down. Closing the browser takes a while.

This happens with everything I click on....

No problems typing this or with Open Office, etc.  just seems to be Firefox.

N

Hi Newlife

First thing I think I would try would be to create a new FireFox profile which will give you a virgin setup

OR

Create a new PCLOS account and try FFox in that - again this would be clean virgin setup for FFox to work in.

OR

Do you have any/many addons installed in FFox? If you do you may want to try disabling them all and re-instate them one by one to see if its one of them

OR

Clean your FFox cache

[Joble]

Have you tried this?  It worked for me:

I am on KDE4.3.4 and both FF and TB take between 50 seconds and 1 minute to load. Is this sort of average loading time? I find it far too long.

I was getting similar with FFox and OOo and I found this suggested in another thread (cant find it at the mo, but noted the instructions down)

Open synaptic package manager and search for package gtk-qt-engine, kde4-style-qtcurve, qtcurve-gtk2.
Mark them for installation (oxygen-molecule will be removed with it)
Reboot
Open KMenu > System > Configuration > Configure Your Desktop
Find and Click Look and Feel > Appearance > Gtk Themes and Fonts
in GTK Styles choose Use another style and pick QtCurve
in GTK Fonts choose Use KDE fonts in my GTK applications
Click Install scrollbar fix below
Click apply
Reboot or restart X server.

This worked for me - all apps open fast as expected

Regards

[Old-Polack]

Newlife:

In Firefox --> about:config --> network.dns.disableIPv6, double click to change Value to true.

[Newlife]

Thank you ALL, I finally seem to have solved the problem by old Polak....

Newlife

[EC]

I have a Dell GX270 with the same ram and cpu, running beta2. The system has been up several days straight with no problems so far. 
You could have a connection problem, if it only happens while browsing the web. I've seen some of that lately...You might try using Opera as a test, to see if its the browser
or the web speed..hope that helps some..
Information that Scoundrel asked for would give him better information to help you too..  

Does that mean you were one of the lucky ones who escaped the bad capacitors issue and the failing Maxtor drives?

[Mike]

I must be, its so old it came with Win 2k pro installed...still running.....
Dell shipped it 10-07-2003...never been touched as yet...

[EC]

I must be, its so old it came with Win 2k pro installed...still running.....
Dell shipped it 10-07-2003...never been touched as yet...

You are truly a lucky person.  At work some years back, we replaced ~ 130-140 bad Maxtor HD's.  We figure we replaced in the neighborhood of 200 or more motherboards that had popped or bulging capacitors.  Can't remember how many power supplies we had to replaced caused by the bad motherboards.  It's safe to say, we weren't too happy with Dell. 

[Mike]

Boy, I'll bet..bad run no doubt. This is one of 11 I sold to a company in 03. The were installed and set up in a call center, and run 24-7 until they were aged out last year.
The only one there was any problem with was a power supply failure...I think sometimes a bad run of anything leaves a bad impression....  

[EC]

Boy, I'll bet..bad run no doubt. This is one of 11 I sold to a company in 03. The were installed and set up in a call center, and run 24-7 until they were aged out last year.
The only one there was any problem with was a power supply failure...I think sometimes a bad run of anything leaves a bad impression....  

Yep   This issue was widespread issue and Dell tried to pretend there was nothing wrong.  They finally disclosed there was a problem when they filed their info with the SEC as to why "x" amount was being set aside for this issue.  Our Dell rep had some major sucking up to do with us 

[Mike]

I hope you did well, they deserve to make things right..