Ubuntu lags more than windows MY GOD

[azim05]

it has beena couple of months that i'm using ubuntu
when i started of fresh my cpu used to run pretty fast, faster than windows but now its ridiculously slow
how to i speed it up
i got the 3d desktop running but thats ok, i had it since day one and it never made my cpu lag since i got a ati card but getting back to the topic, what do i do? go back to windows ?

[devils casper]

Have you installed ATI Proprietary Driver?
Execute this

grep -i driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Post output here.

Execute top command in Terminal and check which process is consuming highest CPU Cycles.

[azim05]

azim@Inspiron:~$ grep -i driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Driver "kbd"
Driver "mouse"
Driver "synaptics"
Driver "fglrx"


K80 K80xserver-xorg-input-wacom S20powernowd
K80acpid README S20winbind
K80acpi-support S01policykit S24dhcdbd
K80anacron S05vbesave S24hal
K80apmd S10powernowd.early S25pulseaudio
K80apport S10sysklogd S30gdm
K80atd S11klogd S90binfmt-support
K80bluetooth S12dbus S98usplash
K80cron S18avahi-daemon S99rc.local
K80cupsys S20atieventsd S99rmnologin
K80nvidia-kernel S20hotkey-setup S99stop-readahead
what else? when i watch a movie, the movie starts lagging really harsly within minutes

[azim05]

any one there

[Dapper Dan]

Can you post the output of the top command?

top

Also, might want to check to see if you have daemons or processes running that you don't really need.

[azim05]

azim@Inspiron:~$ top

top - 18:50:01 up 5 min,  2 users,  load average: 1.06, 0.86, 0.40
Tasks: 105 total,   3 running, 102 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s): 18.4%us,  7.7%sy, 37.8%ni,  0.0%id, 35.5%wa,  0.3%hi,  0.3%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   2075612k total,   982144k used,  1093468k free,    13392k buffers
Swap:  2441840k total,        0k used,  2441840k free,   506632k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND            
 5782 azim      20   0  244m  75m  26m R 13.0  3.7   0:16.14 firefox            
 5036 root      20   0  153m  91m  19m S  4.7  4.5   0:29.20 Xorg               
 5313 azim      20   0 60164  22m  13m S  2.0  1.1   0:02.17 nautilus           
 4551 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  1.3  0.0   0:01.36 kondemand/0        
 5895 azim      20   0 68836  19m  10m R  1.3  1.0   0:00.64 gnome-terminal     
 5290 azim      20   0 28204 5560 3300 S  0.7  0.3   0:00.50 pulseaudio         
 5655 azim      20   0 46524  15m 9228 S  0.7  0.8   0:03.67 transmission       
 5918 azim      20   0  2308 1104  852 R  0.7  0.1   0:00.24 top                
    1 root      20   0  2844 1692  544 S  0.0  0.1   0:01.24 init               
    2 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kthreadd           
    3 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 migration/0        
    4 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0        
    5 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/0         
    6 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 events/0           
    7 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 khelper            
   41 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.02 kblockd/0          
   44 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kacpid

[azim05]

may i get some help please?

[Dapper Dan]

Does Firefox always run around 13% CPU? Or does it go lower?

[azim05]

it goes lower depending on how many tabs i have oppened
but generally the computer runs slow and when firefox is running, then its even slower, when i first installed ubuntu, it was amazingly fast, i was surprised how much more faster it was compared to windows, but now i realize its the same problem, in the begining all OS run fast but then THEY SLOW DOWN.
i tryed shutting down couple of start-ups and i don' t know what else

[Dapper Dan]

It's hard for me to say from here what the problem could be. If you don't care about all the eye candy (and you might) then it's a simple matter of shutting all that off. Disable Compiz-fusion, wobbly windows and such. You might want to try disabling all that as an experiment to see if that is where the problem is.