Why Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty So Slow???

After waiting for Ubuntu 9.04 release date, and 15 hours upgrading from Ubuntu 8.10 to Ubuntu 9.04, iĀ  dissapointed with Ubuntu 9.04 performance. Ubuntu 9.04 is much slower in performance rather than Ubuntu 8.10. And after googling a while, looks like i’m not alone, i found this thread complaining about Ubuntu 9.04 performance. So what happen to Ubuntu?

First after installation, i tried to exploring what’s new in it. But what i found is a big dissapointed. Sometimes an application freezes, especially when i want to close Mozilla Firefox 3.0.9, it freezes. And i need to force quit, arrgh…..Then i feel lot slower when try to change windows between applications, there is delays approximately 1 second to change windows, and tabs in mozilla firefox. And these didn’t happen in Ubuntu 8.10. Now i have to turn off some compiz animation, so it will faster a little bit. And other applications also have the same problem in performance, it really drop.

Second, boot time is slower than Ubuntu 8.10 with all same startup process it takes 3~4 minutes to boot. Third, it also consume more CPU and Memory resources. My PC specs are Intel Pentium Core 2 Duo 2 GHz with 2GB of RAM and onboard video card.

I don’t feel comfortable using current Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope, should i downgrade to Ubuntu 8.10 Interpid?

How about you?

Comments

  1. joel says:

    Let me guess, you've got intel graphics. jaunty is faster than a scalded cat on my nvidia equipped box and sluggish on my intel equipped box. Not an ubuntu problem per se, really more of an intel/xorg/kernel problem – they are in the middle of a huge restructuringof the intel graphics drivers – but it should be sorted out nicely for 9.10

    • Anonymous says:

      hi joel,
      hmm… yes i'm using intel graphics. maybe i should wait for 9.10 then.
      Thanks for the information, i really appreciate it.

  2. joel says:

    Let me guess, you’ve got intel graphics. jaunty is faster than a scalded cat on my nvidia equipped box and sluggish on my intel equipped box. Not an ubuntu problem per se, really more of an intel/xorg/kernel problem – they are in the middle of a huge restructuringof the intel graphics drivers – but it should be sorted out nicely for 9.10

    • Ivan says:

      hi joel,
      hmm… yes i’m using intel graphics. maybe i should wait for 9.10 then.
      Thanks for the information, i really appreciate it.

  3. chi says:

    Sorry for your case, dude. My laptop has an Intel Centrino Duo, 1G RAM, and an onboard video card. Jaunty boot in 25 seconds (but gnome takes another 10+ seconds). Everything goes well, including my wireless card, which didn't work in hardy.
    I have no idea of your trouble. Maybe you could ask gurus for help, reinstall it or just downgrade.

    • Anonymous says:

      hi chi,
      did you do fresh install or upgrade from Ubuntu 8.10 ?
      i heard from joel, it is because intel/xorg/kernel problem. but let see then šŸ™‚

  4. chi says:

    Sorry for your case, dude. My laptop has an Intel Centrino Duo, 1G RAM, and an onboard video card. Jaunty boot in 25 seconds (but gnome takes another 10+ seconds). Everything goes well, including my wireless card, which didn’t work in hardy.
    I have no idea of your trouble. Maybe you could ask gurus for help, reinstall it or just downgrade.

    • Ivan says:

      hi chi,
      did you do fresh install or upgrade from Ubuntu 8.10 ?
      i heard from joel, it is because intel/xorg/kernel problem. but let see then šŸ™‚

  5. Johannes says:

    With NVidia graphics, no problem… seems plausible that Intel graphics support is not so good… bad luck :-/

  6. Johannes says:

    With NVidia graphics, no problem… seems plausible that Intel graphics support is not so good… bad luck :-/

  7. AmblestonDack says:

    Well unfortunately I broke my PC with 9.04 šŸ™ No seriously, not sure yet whether my CPU has run a bit too high a temp or memory issues, but since I did a clean install to 9.04 my PC has spent longer in pieces than running. As a aside note, any idea where I can download 8.10 64-bit Ubuntu from? I just want to test a theory that came to me at 2AM. But I am running Kubuntu 9.04 on a spare laptop and I have to say, so far so bloody good šŸ™‚

  8. AmblestonDack says:

    Well unfortunately I broke my PC with 9.04 šŸ™ No seriously, not sure yet whether my CPU has run a bit too high a temp or memory issues, but since I did a clean install to 9.04 my PC has spent longer in pieces than running. As a aside note, any idea where I can download 8.10 64-bit Ubuntu from? I just want to test a theory that came to me at 2AM. But I am running Kubuntu 9.04 on a spare laptop and I have to say, so far so bloody good šŸ™‚

  9. rsw says:

    I am running a 2.4 ghz machine with 128 mb geforce 4 card and Jaunty is dragging ass. I got the drivers installed and activated and everything, I know it's not that. 8.10 was slick, but this new release is kind've crappy. Just holding out for some kind've patch to come down from the sky into my notification area.

  10. rsw says:

    I am running a 2.4 ghz machine with 128 mb geforce 4 card and Jaunty is dragging ass. I got the drivers installed and activated and everything, I know it’s not that. 8.10 was slick, but this new release is kind’ve crappy. Just holding out for some kind’ve patch to come down from the sky into my notification area.

  11. Oscar says:

    I have been using Ubuntu since version 7.10 without changing my hardware and I was very happy. A week ago I did a clean install of version 9.04 and I am disappointed with the performance. I think the problem is in the video card driver. I have an ATI Radeon 4850. I hope Ubuntu releases new drivers soon or I will have to downgrade.

  12. Oscar says:

    I have been using Ubuntu since version 7.10 without changing my hardware and I was very happy. A week ago I did a clean install of version 9.04 and I am disappointed with the performance. I think the problem is in the video card driver. I have an ATI Radeon 4850. I hope Ubuntu releases new drivers soon or I will have to downgrade.

  13. SL says:

    I have a GTX285 and a 2.6 GHZ Opteron and web browsing on my 9.04 installation is godawful. I can literally remote desktop into an XP machine on the same router and open up a page in IE long before Ubuntu and Firefox stops cogitating about what it wants to do…

  14. SL says:

    I have a GTX285 and a 2.6 GHZ Opteron and web browsing on my 9.04 installation is godawful. I can literally remote desktop into an XP machine on the same router and open up a page in IE long before Ubuntu and Firefox stops cogitating about what it wants to do…

  15. TJ says:

    I just did a fresh summer reinstall of XP and 9.04 and I am also very unimpressed. It looks great, and wireless practically installed itself. But the performance is just awful. It lags on every application launch, I'm thinking of switching distros completely. what have you done?

    • Anonymous says:

      Hi TJ,
      I keep using the 9.04 though. But i deactivated most of compiz feature, it's so sad isn't it?
      And sometimes the firefox freeze by itself especially when open an java aplet site. And cannot fullscreen when you watch youtube.
      But the others, seems normal for me. Because most of the time i spend in front of the computers is coding.
      Let's hope the next release, much better.

      Cheers

  16. TJ says:

    I just did a fresh summer reinstall of XP and 9.04 and I am also very unimpressed. It looks great, and wireless practically installed itself. But the performance is just awful. It lags on every application launch, I’m thinking of switching distros completely. what have you done?

    • Ivan says:

      Hi TJ,
      I keep using the 9.04 though. But i deactivated most of compiz feature, it’s so sad isn’t it?
      And sometimes the firefox freeze by itself especially when open an java aplet site. And cannot fullscreen when you watch youtube.
      But the others, seems normal for me. Because most of the time i spend in front of the computers is coding.
      Let’s hope the next release, much better.

      Cheers

  17. Shabbir Hussain says:

    Ok, my (over-rated) instincts tell me that ext4 could be the problem for sluggish performances of the jaunty and firefox. Need some test though. Will start out in a week and let you know about it.

  18. Shabbir Hussain says:

    Ok, my (over-rated) instincts tell me that ext4 could be the problem for sluggish performances of the jaunty and firefox. Need some test though. Will start out in a week and let you know about it.

  19. Floji-San says:

    I've got the same problem with 9.04! When started up it works just fine, but after a while it seems the video memory is full or sth. Even mouse reaction time is influenced! With a restart it's all good again. I also have the Intel videocard! Hopefully Intel is wise enough to free their restricted codes for I think this may be the case…

    Open software is the future.

    Greets Flo

  20. Floji-San says:

    I’ve got the same problem with 9.04! When started up it works just fine, but after a while it seems the video memory is full or sth. Even mouse reaction time is influenced! With a restart it’s all good again. I also have the Intel videocard! Hopefully Intel is wise enough to free their restricted codes for I think this may be the case…

    Open software is the future.

    Greets Flo

  21. mouratos says:

    Dear All,
    I had the same problem…
    The cause is the browser…
    I installed Seamonkey and now it runs like hell…
    Great improvement…
    Give it a tryand let me know via e-mail…
    Regards

  22. mouratos says:

    Dear All,
    I had the same problem…
    The cause is the browser…
    I installed Seamonkey and now it runs like hell…
    Great improvement…
    Give it a tryand let me know via e-mail…
    Regards

  23. Hi Ivan

    I have installed Jaunty on both my systems –
    a) laptop with on board video card, 1.6GHz dual core processor, 3GB of RAM and the performance of is hopeless. I cannot even enable any desktop effect. I have 'Gnome Do' looks like I must remove it. Jaunty is just horrible. As you have pointed out it really takes a lot of time to boot (longer than 8.10). It also takes a lot of time for the new wallpaper to appear on the desktop.

    b)Desktop with NVIDIA graphics 512MB, 2GB RAM, 2 + GHz Quadcore Processor. Jaunty works really well on it. Compiz is working well with all the 3D graphics enabled.

    I will try the fix that you have mentioned in one of your posts. And then let you know.

  24. Hi Ivan

    I have installed Jaunty on both my systems –
    a) laptop with on board video card, 1.6GHz dual core processor, 3GB of RAM and the performance of is hopeless. I cannot even enable any desktop effect. I have ‘Gnome Do’ looks like I must remove it. Jaunty is just horrible. As you have pointed out it really takes a lot of time to boot (longer than 8.10). It also takes a lot of time for the new wallpaper to appear on the desktop.

    b)Desktop with NVIDIA graphics 512MB, 2GB RAM, 2 + GHz Quadcore Processor. Jaunty works really well on it. Compiz is working well with all the 3D graphics enabled.

    I will try the fix that you have mentioned in one of your posts. And then let you know.

  25. John says:

    I found Kubuntu, ubuntu Jaunty and Linux Mint 6 all to be slow compared to Mepis, Sidux & Mandriva. dual-core Athlon 64 X2 5200, various Nvida cards – 2700, 9800gso — doesn't matter. Same on my mom's dual core acer laptop. On single core systems they seem faster. I'm beginning to wonder if *buntu + dual-core is a problem. Any thoughts?

  26. John says:

    I found Kubuntu, ubuntu Jaunty and Linux Mint 6 all to be slow compared to Mepis, Sidux & Mandriva. dual-core Athlon 64 X2 5200, various Nvida cards – 2700, 9800gso — doesn’t matter. Same on my mom’s dual core acer laptop. On single core systems they seem faster. I’m beginning to wonder if *buntu + dual-core is a problem. Any thoughts?

  27. jazzyjeph says:

    For what its worth 9.04 is very slow on an aging Intel laptop that ran fine with 8.10 but my main system has NVIDIA chipset graphics etc. and also runs terribly so it is not just an Intel problem, my advice is go back to 8.10 until further notice, I know I am.

  28. jazzyjeph says:

    For what its worth 9.04 is very slow on an aging Intel laptop that ran fine with 8.10 but my main system has NVIDIA chipset graphics etc. and also runs terribly so it is not just an Intel problem, my advice is go back to 8.10 until further notice, I know I am.

  29. ugly says:

    Two problems all resulting from the upgrade from Ibex to Jaunty. I own a Acer Aspire 6930, 2.26 GHz,up to 1791 MB Nvidia Geforce 9600M GS TurboCache, 4 GB DDR2 Ram. I am dualbooting Vista and ubuntu. With Vista, i don't experience any of this problems, well but other šŸ™‚ . But my love for Ubuntu thrives me alot, can't give details why. Well now the problems:
    1) After an update from Ibex to Jaunty i couldn't run on battery for more than 5 min. The battery energy skips from 100% to 4% within 5 mins when it then prompts "Battery is low, going on standby". Never had this problem with Ibex.
    2) After returning from standby, my openoffice documents that were being edited b4 going on standby all crash. Closing and reopening them solves the problem. Well, that also was never the case in Ibex.
    I'm thinking of downgrading to Ibex, but maybe someone has a work around ?
    Thanks for a quick response b4 i finally make up my mind to switch.

  30. ugly says:

    Two problems all resulting from the upgrade from Ibex to Jaunty. I own a Acer Aspire 6930, 2.26 GHz,up to 1791 MB Nvidia Geforce 9600M GS TurboCache, 4 GB DDR2 Ram. I am dualbooting Vista and ubuntu. With Vista, i don’t experience any of this problems, well but other šŸ™‚ . But my love for Ubuntu thrives me alot, can’t give details why. Well now the problems:
    1) After an update from Ibex to Jaunty i couldn’t run on battery for more than 5 min. The battery energy skips from 100% to 4% within 5 mins when it then prompts “Battery is low, going on standby”. Never had this problem with Ibex.
    2) After returning from standby, my openoffice documents that were being edited b4 going on standby all crash. Closing and reopening them solves the problem. Well, that also was never the case in Ibex.
    I’m thinking of downgrading to Ibex, but maybe someone has a work around ?
    Thanks for a quick response b4 i finally make up my mind to switch.

  31. ugly says:

    Well there is a third problem i forgot to mention in my last entry. The problem of overheating. My laptop heats and puffs out a lot of hot air. I can’t tell if this is normal because despite the heat, the laptop runs stable on while on battery but it frightens me. I guess it consumes much current as well, coz each time its on my current meter turns like crazy. Thanks once again for a quick response.

  32. ugly says:

    Well there is a third problem i forgot to mention in my last entry. The problem of overheating. My laptop heats and puffs out a lot of hot air. I can't tell if this is normal because despite the heat, the laptop runs stable on while on battery but it frightens me. I guess it consumes much current as well, coz each time its on my current meter turns like crazy. Thanks once again for a quick response.

  33. I recently got my hands on a retired workmate's old PC and wanted to try Ubuntu 8.10 to see how well it did (Pentium III 800Mz Coppermine, 256 Mb RAM, nVidia GeForce2 GTS graphics card) – it went really well! I could browse and upgrade to 9.04 at the same time without any hiccups at all. Until restart. 9.04 was so much slower than 8.10. I downloaded a new 9.04 ISO-image and installed that and got online in 28 minutes, but this is also S L O O W.

    I'm downgrading to 8.10.

  34. I recently got my hands on a retired workmate’s old PC and wanted to try Ubuntu 8.10 to see how well it did (Pentium III 800Mz Coppermine, 256 Mb RAM, nVidia GeForce2 GTS graphics card) – it went really well! I could browse and upgrade to 9.04 at the same time without any hiccups at all. Until restart. 9.04 was so much slower than 8.10. I downloaded a new 9.04 ISO-image and installed that and got online in 28 minutes, but this is also S L O O W.

    I’m downgrading to 8.10.

  35. ty Kennedy says:

    Hello guys, the reason that ubuntu is so slow is because it is completely remaking all its drivers and everything and it is trying to be more generic than other os's and we all know that more generic = more slow. I have also tried Ubuntu 9.10 beta and its graphics are so slow that even panel movement and things like that are sluggish. I wish Ubuntu would hurry up on the remaking.

  36. ty Kennedy says:

    Hello guys, the reason that ubuntu is so slow is because it is completely remaking all its drivers and everything and it is trying to be more generic than other os’s and we all know that more generic = more slow. I have also tried Ubuntu 9.10 beta and its graphics are so slow that even panel movement and things like that are sluggish. I wish Ubuntu would hurry up on the remaking.

  37. Dinesh Dharme says:

    The same problem here. Ubuntu 9.04 is sooo….slow on my machine.
    Even entering a folder containing lot of documents requires waiting for 3-5 seconds. Changing tabs is firefox is slower. Things are bit disappointing.
    Launching any application takes lot of time.

  38. Dinesh Dharme says:

    The same problem here. Ubuntu 9.04 is sooo….slow on my machine.
    Even entering a folder containing lot of documents requires waiting for 3-5 seconds. Changing tabs is firefox is slower. Things are bit disappointing.
    Launching any application takes lot of time.

  39. Vans says:

    mine too here. multi-tabbing firefox slow, watching flash vid slow, working on pdf document also slow, it takes me 2-5 every moving to a new page

    it seems to be has a problem with my ATI9000 video card.

    well, need to do a little tweak perhaps. im looking forward the next realease tough.

    greetz

  40. Vans says:

    mine too here. multi-tabbing firefox slow, watching flash vid slow, working on pdf document also slow, it takes me 2-5 every moving to a new page

    it seems to be has a problem with my ATI9000 video card.

    well, need to do a little tweak perhaps. im looking forward the next realease tough.

    greetz

  41. Shane says:

    "they are in the middle of a huge restructuringof the intel graphics drivers ā€“ but it should be sorted out nicely for 9.10"

    Sorry, Joel, but if anything version 9.10 is worse.

    Instead of BSOD, which belongs to MS, we now have GSOS, Grey Screen Of Slow or Sloth.

    Now, unlike MS, how do we get rid of it?

  42. Shane says:

    “they are in the middle of a huge restructuringof the intel graphics drivers ā€“ but it should be sorted out nicely for 9.10”

    Sorry, Joel, but if anything version 9.10 is worse.

    Instead of BSOD, which belongs to MS, we now have GSOS, Grey Screen Of Slow or Sloth.

    Now, unlike MS, how do we get rid of it?

  43. Nico says:

    Hello… the same problem: everything is slow here… also if I simply pass from a window to another, from an app. to another, or from a "card" of firefox to another… (I'm not English… sorry…)… very slow…
    For every thing I muts wait, also seconds….
    This with every kind of Ubuntu: from the 8.04, 9.04 and 9.10… Both updated and fresh install after let it format the hard disk: nothing.
    And I have not Intel graphic… I have a nVidia card!

    Any idea?

  44. Nico says:

    Hello… the same problem: everything is slow here… also if I simply pass from a window to another, from an app. to another, or from a “card” of firefox to another… (I’m not English… sorry…)… very slow…
    For every thing I muts wait, also seconds….
    This with every kind of Ubuntu: from the 8.04, 9.04 and 9.10… Both updated and fresh install after let it format the hard disk: nothing.
    And I have not Intel graphic… I have a nVidia card!

    Any idea?

  45. Erwin says:

    Hey, I've just installed Ubuntu 8.10 and it worked slowly at first, but then I updated my graphic card drivers (nvidia x.org something) and everything is fine now. My computer works without doubt much faster than windows 7 which I had few days ago.

  46. Erwin says:

    Hey, I've just installed Ubuntu 8.10 and it worked slowly at first, but then I updated my graphic card drivers (nvidia x.org something) and everything is fine now. My computer works without doubt much faster than windows 7 which I had few days ago.

  47. Leonard says:

    Hi All,

    I've just installed ubuntu 9.10 on about 4 of my workmates computers thinking they would be impressed, as previously ubuntu always has much better performance than windows. the 4 computers with ubuntu are extremely slow (all Have nvidia graphics cards) especially in flash and video stuff. farmville as well is disgustingly slow. Any one knows what I can do about it?

  48. Leonard says:

    Hi All,

    I've just installed ubuntu 9.10 on about 4 of my workmates computers thinking they would be impressed, as previously ubuntu always has much better performance than windows. the 4 computers with ubuntu are extremely slow (all Have nvidia graphics cards) especially in flash and video stuff. farmville as well is disgustingly slow. Any one knows what I can do about it?

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