mark <mark@aktivix.org> writes:

Hi people,

I'm asking your advice here because since upgrading from stretch to
buster, my laptop has "become slow" by which I mean applications take
longer to open, new windows take several seconds to complete drawing on
the desktop and there's a noticeable lag when I use the mouse to select
text (you can see the text becoming highlighted one char at a time).

I wonder, is one of the new features in buster (e.g. ACLs) too taxing on
my old machine, and if so can I turn it off?

The machine in question is a ThinkPad T500, core2duo processor 2.4GHz,
with 4GB RAM and an SSD - see https://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:T500 .

I installed first with default Gnome desktop, then ran that without
Wayland, then switched to Mate, but none of that helped.

Any suggestions please?

Thanks in advance,
Mark

Hi,

On the face of it no as my T60p made the change fine that didn't tax the 2.33Ghz CPU. Maybe journalctl -b might give some clues? What GFX does
the T500 have? Intel or Ati

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Am 06.09.19 um 02:46 schrieb Dekks Herton:

mark <mark@aktivix.org> writes:

Hi people,

I'm asking your advice here because since upgrading from stretch to
buster, my laptop has "become slow" by which I mean applications take
longer to open, new windows take several seconds to complete drawing on
the desktop and there's a noticeable lag when I use the mouse to select
text (you can see the text becoming highlighted one char at a time).

I wonder, is one of the new features in buster (e.g. ACLs) too taxing on
my old machine, and if so can I turn it off?

The machine in question is a ThinkPad T500, core2duo processor 2.4GHz,
with 4GB RAM and an SSD - see https://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:T500 . >>
I installed first with default Gnome desktop, then ran that without
Wayland, then switched to Mate, but none of that helped.

Any suggestions please?

Thanks in advance,
Mark

Hi,

On the face of it no as my T60p made the change fine that didn't tax the 2.33Ghz CPU. Maybe journalctl -b might give some clues? What GFX does
the T500 have? Intel or Ati

Hi.

Perhaps you try to install the xfce-desktop environment.
Xfce use not much resources.

Gérard

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buster, my laptop has "become slow" by which I mean applications take
longer to open, new windows take several seconds to complete drawing on
the desktop and there's a noticeable lag when I use the mouse to select
text (you can see the text becoming highlighted one char at a time).

Reminds me of things I saw when using Gnome on a system where there was
no driver for the GPU (aka "3D graphics").

Maybe it's just some firmware missing or an old /etc/X11/xorg.conf
forcing the use of a now-discontinued driver?

Just a stab in the dark, sorry: my crystal ball is still sleeping,


Stefan

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