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Ubuntu Performance Guides

April 24, 2007 |

I recently did a switch of Windows to Ubuntu and then upgraded to Fiesty Fawn (7.04) earlier this week. I must say, Ubuntu rocks but has it’s drawbacks. I hate to give Windows any credit when it comes to better performance, but unfortunately out of the box, a Windows XP system for example does perform faster than a default install of Ubuntu. That does not mean Ubuntu cannot be tweaked to boost performance to surpass Windows.

We’ve compiled a list of resources that can be used to improve performance on your Ubuntu operating system.

  1. Hacking Ubuntu to Improve Performance - This article includes various hacks to boost Ubuntu’s performance, such as viewing running processes, identifying resources, finding process startups, tuning kernel parameters, and speeding up boot time.

  2. Ultimate Ubuntu performance tweaking guide - Detailed step by step instructions on what to do in order to improve performance on your system.

  3. Improve Ubuntu Performance - This is an index of threads posted on ubuntuforums.org on how to get the best performance out of your Ubuntu machine.

  4. Optimizing Desktop Performance - Skip to the section titled Ubuntu Services for Performance Tuning to find some performance tips. Excellent article series covering performance techniques on major flavors of Linux.

  5. Feisty performance - Fly like a butterfly - A collection of settings used to tune the speed and performance of Kubuntu/Ubuntu Feisty.

  6. Only Ubuntu Linux - Performance tip for Ubuntu Edgy and Feisty users by simply editing your /etc/hosts file.

  7. Desktop performance tweaks - Here are a couple of performance tweaks that are nice for desktops/laptops. These tweaks are relatively easy to perform and reasonable safe. Everything you do is on your own risk.

  8. Improve Performance in Ubuntu Edgy - Tricks and hacks on how to improve the overall performance of your system.

  9. Ubuntu: 32-bit v. 64-bit Performance - Not specific to system tweaking but a nice article comparing performance on a 32-bit vs. a 64-bit server.

  10. Best Ubuntu Guide Ever - This guide has everything you need.

  11. Tweak ubuntu for speed - These tweaks will make your system faster and more responsive without a doubt. Read on to perform the tweaks and enjoy your faster system.

  12. Ubuntu Customization Guide - About customization, we’re gonna make Ubuntu look and feel the way you want.

  13. Local DNS Cache for Faster Browsing - Nice article explaining how to use DNS caching to speed up internet browsing on your Ubuntu install.

  14. Super Fast Internet for Ubuntu - Basically you disable ipV6 which apparently conflicts with ipV4. Good post.

  15. Ubuntu/Linux Roundup - Good collection of links/articles for Ubuntu users.

  16. Ten tips for new Ubuntu users - Here’s a list of tips that might save you some time while you’re getting used to Ubuntu.

  17. 10 most popular Ubuntu sites on the net - You should definitely visit these top 10 sites which have a wealth of information on using and troubleshooting in Ubuntu.

If you’d like to contribute to this list, please add in comment field. Thanks!!!

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Comments

66 Comments so far

  1. f4rrest on April 24, 2007 6:21 pm

    Thanks for this list. I noticed the same on xubuntu Edgy Eft / XP Home dual boot installation on a core 2 duo laptop.

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  3. www.tipshack.com on April 24, 2007 9:10 pm

    Ubuntu performance guides

    A list of great Ubuntu performance guides to speed up you Ubuntu Machine

  4. Jawsh on April 24, 2007 9:13 pm

    Once you install all your antivirus, updates, office software, productivity software, antimalware, software firewall maybe, software to play media, messengers, games (maybe), drivers, alternate web browsers… ect ect I can keep going … the XP installation suddenly becomes much slower. Odd… ;)

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  7. Jason Sares on April 24, 2007 9:56 pm

    How did it seem slow? Moving windows around, opening applications?

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  9. BrokenCrystal on April 24, 2007 11:17 pm

    Ubuntu is slower than Windows? I know you can not be referring to Windows Vista?

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  11. dave on April 25, 2007 1:11 am

    i would love to suggest nice ubuntu tutorials,howto’s http://www.ubuntugeek.com

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  14. Daniel on April 25, 2007 3:04 am

    In my case Festy is faster or th same. I didn’t notis any differens in speed. When you install you’re favorite apps and games Ubuntu stay the same but Windows plums and get really slow.

    Windows is acctually faster with Virtualbox in linux than native for me right now.

  15. Josiah on April 25, 2007 3:08 am

    my Ubuntu seems faster than Windows XP :)

    Windows XP out of the box has no software to use. After 2 months of use typically slows down terribly.

    No Vista for me.

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  18. Gerard on April 25, 2007 4:49 am

    I was searching Digg for some performance tweaks and came accross this website with all links I needed.
    Brilliant. Many thanks for your work & time

  19. Huygens on April 25, 2007 5:07 am

    I wonder how you can say that XP is faster than Ubuntu?
    On my work laptop (a Dell Centrino 1.6GHz 1GB RAM) I have both Ubuntu and Windows XP, both with latest updates and not tweaks.
    Windows XP is so slow in the following thing:
    - starting up the machine
    - logging in
    - launching Office application and modifying documents (could be due to the anti-virus, but I do not have the rights to deactivate it)
    - switching from an application to another. Why, ho why does XP put some application in the swap whereas I still have plenty of memory space! This makes things so slow…

    The only thing where XP is faster is with 3D. I have a ATI Mobile Radeon 9000 card which is slow on all system, but still XP is faster than Linux in this regard. But as I use this laptop for work only, I could not care less ;-)

    The good thing with XP? It reminds me of the old days where I had time to go and grab a coffee while it is starting up. And I have time so sip it while launching the necessary office applications. So you start slowly in the morning waking up ;-)
    With Ubuntu I do not have this chance anymore :(

  20. MomKickerMusic on April 25, 2007 5:27 am

    I’ve got the latest version of ubuntu. Great Stuff!

  21. jaywee on April 25, 2007 8:18 am

    great howto list.

  22. nongeek on April 25, 2007 9:14 am

    Ubuntu is not the fastest linux distro, but I find it faster than WinXP. However I use xubuntu which is _almost_ as easy to use as ubuntu but comes with a light desktop.

  23. daniel on April 25, 2007 9:25 am

    Thanks for the list! Some of them I’ve already seen, but surely even more to try.

    As far as questions on speed, I recently installed kubuntu feisty on my wife’s laptop (dell, approx. 1GHz, 512MB ram), a second HD.

    Interested to see the difference, I put both XP and kubuntu to the stopwatch test. The XP harddrive (been installed for a while) boots in about 60 seconds, and finishes with wireless, etc at about 70 seconds.

    The kubuntu drive (auto logon) took 105 seconds on a completely fresh install. After doing the “simple” performance tips in the “butterfly” guide, I shaved it down to about 85 seconds. Still a little slower, but quite close.

    Starting Office (v11?) on the XP drive after a fresh boot took about 5 seconds. OpenOffice under kubuntu was down to 10 seconds after turning off the java runtime option (listed in one of the guides).

    Rather long-winded, but hopefully illustrates what the author probably meant by “slower”. Of course, I’d never dream of trying to run Vista on that hardware… =)

    Echoing others, really impressed with the newest incarnation of ubuntu!

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  26. Dan C on April 25, 2007 2:54 pm

    When it comes to performance, Gentoo is it. It’s considerably harder to install (read not for beginners) but what you learn from it makes it all worth while.

    http://www.gentoo.org/

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  35. capricornus on April 27, 2007 11:50 pm

    Upstairs I run 2 pc’s, one with a tweaked WinXP on a DualCore and one with a untweaked Ubuntu on a Sempron 2600. I start them up at the same moment: I get a workable machine the same time! It is not when WinXP shows you a screen that the machine is ready, far from: all the necessary security is stil working and demanding full processor capability.

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  52. hendoc on September 6, 2007 6:19 pm

    I use fiesy fawn 64 bit on amd 64 with one gig of ram, and Xp is much, much slower, ESPECIALLY on bootup.

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  57. Moreskins on December 18, 2007 5:20 pm

    Thanks for the list dude!

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  60. Azad on January 16, 2008 5:46 pm

    Off course XP is faster that a default setup of Ubuntu. XP came out in 2001 and Ubuntu is a latest OS with much more visual candy.

    Don’t compare Ubuntu with XP. Compare with Vista and then tell me who’s faster.

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