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I have laptop HP 6720s. This happens when I enter top in Terminal:

Cpu(s): 1.7%us, 1.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 97.0%id, 0.3%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st

Mem: 2053924k total, 1837352k used, 216572k free, 56876k buffers

Swap: 2929660k total, 68k used, 2929592k free, 1196700k cached

I have INTEL graphics card. Applications opens really slow but wireless is really fast. Operations inside applications are slow, too. I have Ubuntu for the first time, I totaly moved Windows 7 to history :) Hope Linux is not this slow usually.

Please help.

Bruno Pereira
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  • what do you mean by "wireless is really fast" compared to "applications open slow" - how are these observations related? What "operations" are slow? – fossfreedom Jan 21 '12 at 21:28
  • They are not related, I apologize if it sounded like that. Applications opens slow, and every operation I do in applications like Ubuntu software center is slow. I click and then I must wait a couple of seconds till operation completes. Is there any problem with my graphics cards or RAM? – boofighter Jan 21 '12 at 21:38
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    Seems strange - ok, lets first see if this is a compiz issue - please login to unity-2d and see if your problem is resolved. This Q&A should help you if you dont know how to log in to unity-2d - http://askubuntu.com/questions/74300/how-to-login-into-unity-2d – fossfreedom Jan 21 '12 at 21:42
  • I tried that, and it is faster performance. What do you suggest then? – boofighter Jan 21 '12 at 21:55
  • So I should always start unity-2d and the problem is solved then? – boofighter Jan 21 '12 at 22:03

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If this is a compiz issue then you can use Unity-2D to see if performance increases. Unity-2D does not use compiz.

If you find that it is a compiz issue, then you are most probably affected by this bug-report.

This has been resolved and is awaiting testing by a larger group of users. If this is successful the fix will be released into the main repository and you will automatically receive this as part of the Update-Manager process. This will normally occur in a few-days/weeks after a fix is released into the proposed repository.

If you are feel you wish to contribute to the testing process, you can enable the "Proposed" repository in your software-sources. Refresh your software sources via Update-Manager and you will see new Unity packages available. You could install these suggested packages.

fossfreedom
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It's very annoying when people say things like what do you mean by "wireless is really fast" compared to "applications open slow". I have had various versions of Ubuntu now, and yes, 11.10 for me has fast wireless with slow applications, exactly as said. This is quite a clear description by boofighter. These observations are obviously related, as the slowness is not an Internet/downloading issue. Will also investigate Compiz.. it sped up version 11.04 for me, though was still a little slow.

smartgenes
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