Laggy

[MassAppeal]

BT4 is very laggy for me.

Ive given it 2gb Ram and 2 processors. Loads up fast but when i get in its so slow to run commands.

May take 10-30seconds to do something, sometimes its fine but most times its not.

I have killed the artsd process numerous times and i dont think its the only issue

[Whiskey]

Are you running it live or through a proper file installation? And what medium is it running off of?

[trellis]

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And see what's eating your CPU time and memory

[Archangel-Amael]

BT4 is very laggy for me.

Ive given it 2gb Ram and 2 processors. Loads up fast but when i get in its so slow to run commands.

May take 10-30seconds to do something, sometimes its fine but most times its not.

I have killed the artsd process numerous times and i dont think its the only issue

The question is do you have enough memory and the processors to run as you are stating above. If this is a vmware image then the host and the vmware application are also going to take
up memory as well as processor cycles.
2 gigs of ram is great but if that is all your system has then all of it will not be allocated to the guest OS.
If you only have one processor then giving the guest 2 will actually cause problems.
We need more info about your setup. Try to be specific hardware info, how you are running bt HDD/USB/Vmware etc are good bits.
Also fire up BT and use top to gather info on what processes are running and eating up your cpu cycles.

[MassAppeal]

I have tried Single processor as well with just 1.5gb ram which should be more then enough.

Im using the following -

Intel core duo 2.8ghz
4GB Ram
Vmware 7.0 with the vmware image on my Harddisk, have also tried it off a storage device. Same issue.

top - 07:27:39 up 12 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.48, 0.40, 0.30
Tasks: 111 total,   3 running, 108 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s): 11.3%us,  1.5%sy,  0.0%ni, 85.6%id,  0.0%wa,  1.5%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   2696260k total,   261212k used,  2435048k free,    12836k buffers
Swap:   409616k total,        0k used,   409616k free,   138192k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 5789 root      19  -1 55944  31m 3952 R   24  1.2   0:51.74 Xorg
 7634 root      20   0 30356  12m  10m R    1  0.5   0:00.26 konsole
    1 root      20   0  3052 1896  572 S    0  0.1   0:02.49 init
    2 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kthreadd
    3 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.02 migration/0
    4 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0
    5 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 migration/1
    6 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 ksoftirqd/1
    7 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.01 events/0
    8 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 events/1
    9 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 work_on_cpu/0
   10 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 work_on_cpu/1
   11 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.03 khelper
  194 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.03 kblockd/0
  195 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kblockd/1
  197 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kacpid
  198 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kacpi_notify
  319 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 ata/0
  320 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 ata/1
  321 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 ata_aux
  322 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 ksuspend_usbd
  328 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.47 khubd
  331 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kseriod
  363 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 khpsbpkt
  394 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 pdflush
  395 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.01 pdflush

Me looking at that, it doesnt look bad... hopefully you can spot something

[Archangel-Amael]

You are the same one who posted about the missing wallpaper. Are you sure that the md5sum is correct ? I don't see anything above that would be causing you problems however, that doesn't mean much.
Running top for a few seconds in order to paste it doesn't really tell much. I have copy of the vmare image and it works (outside of the artsd issue) just fine.
You could try downloading the iso and making your own vmware image out of it. It's not hard to do. Then see if it works any better.

[MassAppeal]

md5 matches on both iso & vmware image for me.

I have problems with both though.

Vmware image is slow, doggy. Doesn't create mon0, have to iwpriv to change from 5db to 27db on my alfa card

Iso image which i made into a vm image creates mon0, has correct power settings, isnt slow but doesnt have any signal strength and cant see APs

I dont see how they could be so different like that...