After using Ubuntu 9.04 for a couple of weeks, i still found it a bit sluggish. I blamed my intel mobile graphics chip because it is not a really fast performer. But when looking into the CPU stats, i found that I was working at 800 Mhz all the time instead of 2.27Ghz!!! But even at 800 Mhz, I was not really dissapointed with the performance.
But after some looking around on the Ubuntu forums, I found out that it has to do something with the CPU scaling. After a few more searches accross the Intertubes, I came accross the following command:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure gnome-applets
After executing this command I added the the CPU Frequency monitor to the top panel and after selecting 2.27GHz as the preferred speed, Ubuntu was flying as fast as I expected to be! Even flash videos work pretty good right now, but still Adobe need to do some decent programming so it doesn’t use up all my CPU at full screen!!
#1 by Jasper Beerens on October 30, 2009 - 16:06
I will keep this in mind when I try to install it my self this weekend!