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hey guys i plan to setup a home server on ubuntu server but since i know nothing of linux i just have it on my normal pc to play around with for now and to test run it. i noticed when i installed it however it runs painfully slow. My specs that would directly affect it are i am running a i7 4790k i have an amd radeon hd7870 and 16gb of ram. i dont see why it is slow but loading settings and other apps is painfully slow. any ideas as to why? a second minor question is do any of you know where i can learn to setup the linux server like how to setup the samba part and everything..
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chasehornby55
October 13, 2014 6:37:00 PM
Ijack said:
Although an SSD would make it even faster, it should fly on a normal hard disk so I wouldn't worry abou this. If you have only just installed the OS it may be that it is still indexing the disk, or some other initialization. Is the hard disk showing a lot of activity?As a first basic troubleshooting open a terminal window and type "top". This should give you a display of the running processes, a bit like a text version of Windows Task Manager. This may help you to work out what is going on.
OP probably means Ubuntu on mechanical HDD is objectively slow compared to Windows on an SSD. Fact of life is that SSD are becoming almost order of magnitude faster than HDD!
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Although an SSD would make it even faster, it should fly on a normal hard disk so I wouldn't worry abou this. If you have only just installed the OS it may be that it is still indexing the disk, or some other initialization. Is the hard disk showing a lot of activity?
As a first basic troubleshooting open a terminal window and type "top". This should give you a display of the running processes, a bit like a text version of Windows Task Manager. This may help you to work out what is going on.
As a first basic troubleshooting open a terminal window and type "top". This should give you a display of the running processes, a bit like a text version of Windows Task Manager. This may help you to work out what is going on.
chasehornby55
October 12, 2014 5:10:44 PM
mdd1963
October 12, 2014 4:25:56 PM
mdd1963
October 12, 2014 4:09:24 PM
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