Ubuntu 8.10 vs 8.04 Issues

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lelliott731

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So I was curious as to what is wrong with the new 8.10 version of Ubuntu & why F@H slows down on it versus the older 8.04?

Also, does that mean there is specific updates that we shouldn't have installed via the update client on Ubuntu 8.04 so that the Linux Kernel, or whatever package that is affecting F@H isn't installed?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!
 
lelliott731 said:
So I was curious as to what is wrong with the new 8.10 version of Ubuntu & why F@H slows down on it versus the older 8.04?

Also, does that mean there is specific updates that we shouldn't have installed via the update client on Ubuntu 8.04 so that the Linux Kernel, or whatever package that is affecting F@H isn't installed?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!
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Check this out : http://forums.extremeoverclocking.com/showthread.php?t=303459
should tell you how to run it in order to see the performance you expect.
 
Upgrading to kernel versions 2.6.28 and later seems to have fixed the problem for people over at foldingforum.org.
 
from a terminal: uname -a

Example of my Core i7 rig:

jt@ganymede:~$ uname -a
Linux ganymede 2.6.24-16-server #1 SMP Thu Apr 10 13:15:38 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux

^ this is default 8.04 Ubuntu
 
Ok, how do I upgrade to the latest Linux Kernel? Ubuntu update doesn't seem to do that with Ubuntu 8.10. RIght now this is the output I get, but I obviously want to be running better CPU utilization with the 2.6.28 Kernel.

Linux lukes-ubuntu-810 2.6.27-9-generic #1 SMP Thu Nov 20 22:15:32 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux
 
You may have to ask on the Ubuntu forums. I'm not really sure as I am only running default 8.04 here and I don't care about upgrading as the kernel that comes with 8.04 is very stable and fast for me.
 
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

^^Those series of commands should get the latest kernel and install it, to include everything else available. You need to reboot to load the new kernel once installed.

 
However, the latest Ubuntu 8.10 kernel retrieved during that upgrade may or may not be 2.6.28 or later. When I last tried 8.10 about a week ago, they were still on a revision of 2.6.27 which still doesn't give very good performance on Quad core CPUs.
 
2.6.28 is available in testing (the Ubuntu 9.04 alpha release). 8.10 is still using 2.6.27 so yeah doing what I said earlier wouldn't work. :S
 
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