10.10 runs slow and jerky

[Dyegov]

I was expecting something like this to happen to me. All the contrary, the system is sooo smooth I'm surprised. I have to accept I didn't expect that much of Ubuntu. Perfect 10.10 for me

[Rasa1111]

10.10 runs perfectly on this old machine.
Very impressive.

Only thing I found that can make it slower, is if Ubuntu One is enabled at startup.

But I disabled it from running upon startup,
and all is well.

[Shaythong]

10.10 runs perfectly on this old machine.
Very impressive.

What processor and graphics card and how much RAM do you have? Does Ubuntu One actually cause your system to be jerky or does it just increase startup time even if you're not using it?

[sendblink23]

I know my computer is high end, but wte its extremely snappy for me 10.10 x64

[freedomAboveAll]

I know my computer is high end, but wte its extremely snappy for me 10.10 x64

I am expecting my experience was just a quirk (possibly chrome related), as previous 10.04 ran fine, and even the 10.10 betas were fine. I have quad AMD with 8GB ram, and as others have said, the CPU is fine.

I did the reinstall of NVIDIA drivers mentioned in previous posts, and things seem to work pretty well now.

[73ckn797]

My initial fresh install of 10.10 had some problems with hanging up and being very slow to open applications. I reinstalled after booting from the CD and running Gparted. I deleted the partition for the "/" and the reinstall is working very smooth. I write this from that secondary install. I have a separate "/home" partition and that has not been affected.

[Shaythong]

I just found out that Ubuntu One doesn't even startup automatically unless you configure it. So, I guess it won't make a difference.

[juliobahar]

Under 10.10, the 855GM cards work using the worse than useless fbdev drivers. You should have stuck with 10.04.

Suggest try the workaround here described in the description. If it doesnt work, go back to 10.04.

Thanks for your reply. But, it might be to your surprise, that my life is better with ubuntu 10.10 on my 855GM Toshiba laptop, than the days when I used to regret upgrading to 10.04.

I must say that even with all the jerkiness caused by kslow00? processes in 10.10, my laptop is performing better than with 10.04. At that time I considered my laptop dead and had a a big disappointment with canonical.

I'm still looking into the fixes that you've suggested. I hope the new kernel will solve these issues.

[dodo3773]

Worked great. Thank you.

Update
It is back to running extremely buggy. But I new better than to do an upgrade. Should have done a clean install. Lesson learned I guess.

[Locke2053]

I did an upgrade and one of my systems is really jittery, too. Like the keyboard (bluetooth) buffers for five or more seconds, then all the text appears instantly. I'm going to try a fresh install, but I'm not hopeful considering the number of people reporting...