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Linux Distro- Suitable For Celeron 2.8GHZ 256kb L2 cache?

Post by L1nux » Fri Oct 30, 2015 4:02 am

Hey, I’ve a PC with intel celeron 2.8GHz (L2 cache size 256kb)
RAM — DDR3 2GB

I’ve installed Linux mint xfce on the computer,it works fine but CPU keeps reaching 100% when I try to complete several tasks and it gets a bit slower.
Watching youtube videos,checking Facebook news feeds makes my CPU reach 90-100%.

At first,I thought it was caused by internet connection ,but computers with slower internet connections(with better hardware) work much better than mine when it comes to internet browsing.

So,do you guys think,that installing any lightweight distro (DSL,Puppy,Bodhi,Slitaz) will help me fix the problem or getting better CPU is only alternative?
Thanks in advance!

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Re: Linux Distro- Suitable For Celeron 2.8GHZ 256kb L2 cache

Post by Neil Edmond » Fri Oct 30, 2015 9:15 am

I think that kind of performance is to be expected. I’m using an almost identical setup on my desk at work (except it runs Windows), and my CPU is pegged at 100% often.

That said, I wonder how much, if any, graphics acceleration you have. You didn’t mention what kind of GPU you are using. Could be that the CPU is doing most, or all, the graphics rendering. That would certainly eat up CPU cycles.

A lighter distro might make a little difference in the resources it takes to run the desktop, but once you open a full featured browser, YouTube and/or Facebook, you’re not going to see much difference in the resources those apps need.

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Re: Linux Distro- Suitable For Celeron 2.8GHZ 256kb L2 cache

Post by z31fanatic » Fri Oct 30, 2015 10:18 am

A computer with Celeron processor most like has the integrated Intel HD graphics.
Which Celeron is it? There are many models from different generations.

Re: Linux Distro- Suitable For Celeron 2.8GHZ 256kb L2 cache

Post by Hoser Rob » Fri Oct 30, 2015 1:22 pm

First off, turn off all effects/compositing.

Second, you should know your video card. Open the terminal, copy/paste this in:

Re: Linux Distro- Suitable For Celeron 2.8GHZ 256kb L2 cache

Post by L1nux » Sun Nov 01, 2015 10:46 am

That said, I wonder how much, if any, graphics acceleration you have. You didn’t mention what kind of GPU you are using. Could be that the CPU is doing most, or all, the graphics rendering. That would certainly eat up CPU cycles.

I never knew CPU could do graphic renderingI think you’re right. I’m going to check my GPU, I’ll post it below

z31fanatic wrote: A computer with Celeron processor most like has the integrated Intel HD graphics.
Which Celeron is it? There are many models from different generations.

Hoser Rob wrote: First off, turn off all effects/compositing.

Second, you should know your video card. Open the terminal, copy/paste this in:

It says
PCI (sysfs) Do I have to install sensors or something like that to get an exact answer?
Thanks all

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Re: Linux Distro- Suitable For Celeron 2.8GHZ 256kb L2 cache

Post by Neil Edmond » Mon Nov 02, 2015 2:34 pm

The terminal should show «PCI (sysfs)» for a second or two, then produce the requested list. Did you give it enough time to generate the list?

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Re: Linux Distro- Suitable For Celeron 2.8GHZ 256kb L2 cache

Post by xfrank » Mon Nov 02, 2015 3:11 pm

It depends largely by which kind of celeron has your pc. Newer «celeron» generations are pretty good. I have n2830 «bay trail», for example, and the performance is very good with Linux Mint 17.2 Xfce. LMDE2 should perform also very well.

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Re: Linux Distro- Suitable For Celeron 2.8GHZ 256kb L2 cache

Post by Reorx » Mon Nov 02, 2015 3:45 pm

I think that it is the video taxing your system (not the OS).

My office laptop runs LM17 Cinnamon 64bit on a celeron processor with 4 GB of RAM and the system runs great as long as I don’t do anything that taxes the processor too much (like video rendering). system specs below >

Below is the same System Monitor screen after I closed the YouTube tab but the other 2 tabs are still open.

Full time Linux Mint user since 2011 — Currently running LM21C on multiple Dell laptops — mostly Vostro models.

Re: Linux Distro- Suitable For Celeron 2.8GHZ 256kb L2 cache

Post by L1nux » Thu Nov 05, 2015 7:15 am

Neil Edmond wrote: The terminal should show «PCI (sysfs)» for a second or two, then produce the requested list. Did you give it enough time to generate the list?

You’re right,I did not give enough time to generate the list,I waited for a seconds this time and I got :
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
version: 03
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
resources: irq:43 memory:fe400000-fe7fffff memory:d0000000-dfffffff ioport:dc00(size=8)

The output for the graphic card is

Card: Intel 4 Series Integrated Graphics Controller bus-ID: 00:02.0
X.Org: 1.15.1 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) Resolution: 1366×768@59.8hz

Reorx wrote: I think that it is the video taxing your system (not the OS).

My office laptop runs LM17 Cinnamon 64bit on a celeron processor with 4 GB of RAM and the system runs great as long as I don’t do anything that taxes the processor too much (like video rendering). system specs below >

Below is the same System Monitor screen after I closed the YouTube tab but the other 2 tabs are still open.

My computer is much slower comparing to yours ,I got much less memory cache (256kb) ,less memory(2GB) ,also the CPU has single core

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Зачем же сажать пожилых людей за таких динозавров?
Попробуй Debian Jessie или antiX , ну или PuppyRus

Нет наверное такого дистрибутива, который сегодня не содержал бы русскую локаль. Все настраивается, при желании.

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