

TEMP FOLDER ON MAC DIRECTORY BASH INSTALL
This will make a world of a difference on older machines.įinally: if you have oodles of RAM and are just plain impatient with opening files install ureadahead. follow the instructions here to drop some unecessary bling ( Unity runs slow, how can I improve its performance?)ģ.2 alternatively install a lighter DE like XFCE or LXDE. they have a tiny integrated graphics processor).ģ.1 If you dont have a graphics card and/or you can't set up the drivers you will need to make unity a little easier on the CPU. If you dont have a dedicated graphics card you need to have a core-i processor from intel. Note: The recommended space for the temporary folder is at least 2 times by the size of all source video files.

Alternatively, delete some useless files in the hard drive that the temporary folder locates in.

Next, open up the Startup Application and add the the find-and-delete file to the list. To do so, go to Settings > General, and change the Temp Directory to another hard drive with sufficient space, and then try again. Go to the Permissions tab and check the box Allow executing file as program. Right click on the find-and-delete file and select Properties. A usual culprit is zietgeist.įind out if any processes are hogging the CPUĭo you have a graphics card hat can handle unity? (it needs hardware acceleration for it's perfectly purple pixels) You might need to install the necessary drivers (search for "drivers" in the dash and run the application that is suggested. Open the File Manager app and browse to the Home folder. see if any process is taking up too much memory and try killing it. (The first line is a bit misleading because it also counts spare ram that was used to pre-cache files as used).ġ.1 if you are short of ram (and you had at least 1GB in total) open the system monitor form the dash and arrange the processes in by memory usage. This line is the one that tells you what the actually used/free memory is. If the -/+ buffers/cache: xxx yyy line has very little free memory ( yyy <150) then you might be short of ram. Is this a recent problem? (i.e was it signficantly faster before?) If not: Slow ubuntu may not be because of low disk space.
