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<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">OK. 11.04 is exhibiting molasses behavior too. Maybe I'm abusing the computer too much, but I'm confused. If you guys can tell me what's happening, please let me know. Regardless of the cause, I like Gnome 2 and configurable panels the best, hence 11.04.<br>
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I'm trying to create a "clean" computer that border agents can inspect, should they choose, while I'm on the road. There will be nothing there to see but a plain vanilla install of Ubuntu.<br>
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Here's what I did. Install the OS and all patches, which is now 11.04.<br>
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Install the secure-delete program with synaptic. Use to fill up empty space and swap space to permanently delete deleted files.<br>
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Turn off swap: sudo swapoff -a<br>
Fill the swap space with zeros: sudo sswap -l -v /dev/sda5 (let this run)<br>
Start filling the normal drive with zeros: sudo sfill -l -v / (let this run)<br>
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These processes are incredibly slow, on the order of .5 MB / sec. So, I start creating junk files of my own to fill up the drive quicker.<br>
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dd if=/dev/zero of=./junk-16G bs=1G count=16<br>
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This last item will create a 16GB file at about 25 MB / sec in my case.<br>
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Note that, at this point, cpu utilization is UNDER 5 %. At the moment, there are still hundreds of GB of free HDD space.<br>
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While all this is going on, I start Firefox and try to do some browsing, like playing youtube, etc. Firefox is so incredibly slow as to be almost unusable. It may take 5-10 seconds just to paint the screen. At other times, it works more smoothly. I'm totally baffled as to the reason. Filling up the hard drive will take a long time, so I want to multitask with the PC in the mean time. I don't know what's up. The lack of a swap area shouldn't be a problem as I have 8 GB of RAM.<br>
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Also, when I use system monitor, and look at the file systems. It has a "free space" column and an "available space column". There are as much as about 15 GB of difference between them. Apparently, I can only fill up the available space with dd. But, sfill keeps going and fills up the free space, much slower. What does that mean.<br>
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Any help is always appreciated.<br>
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Sincerely,<br>
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Ron<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">Jim Kinney <jim.kinney@gmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Gee. Fedora uses Gnome3 and it does
work (just tablet mentality).<br>
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On 07/15/2012 02:02 PM, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:mike@trausch.us">mike@trausch.us</a> wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">On 07/15/2012 01:59 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE) wrote:
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<pre wrap="">However, I'm in a hurry to get this machine running. I deleted Ubuntu
12.04 and went back to 11.04 with Gnome 2 that I know and (usually) love.
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It only takes about 30 minutes after adding the PPA to get GNOME 3 on
there and reboot.
I am actually considering moving to Ubuntu on my desktop because the
Gentoo people aren't stabilizing GNOME 3 quickly enough (3.4 is out now,
damnit!) and there is little care in keeping the unstable GNOME 3 tree
updatable even if done daily.
--- Mike
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