I've tried installing Lubuntu 11.10 on VIA 266 motherboard with 1.2 GHz Athlon processor and 256Mb DDR memory. I've installed it on 40Gb hard drive with 1Gb swapfile and all other space as root partition in btrfs.
Entire installation process took too much time, but I thought that it's due to limited amount of memory. But when the system booted I've found that It used only 50Mb and 50Mb were in swap. It was constantly swapping, as soon as system tried to get some memory for newly starting application. And swap usage was almost the same as memory usage. That is, when 100 Mb of memory was used, swap was used for about 100Mb etc.
Buffers took about 40Mb. Booting process took about 3 minutes.
System was almost unusable since it was slowed down so much. I've tried changing swappines from 60 to 10 but that had absolutely no effect.
So, I had to remove that system and install LTS version with LXDE and it works pretty fast.
Sorry for not providing ubuntu-bug data. I forgot to do that, but now that system is removed. But I think that this bug is too important to ignore.
P.S: I've experienced something very similar on another machine when used someone's build of cfs kernel.
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AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24.
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
AudioDevicesInUse:
USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/controlC0: ubuntu 2781 F.... lxpanel
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
Card hw:0 'V8235'/'VIA 8235 with VIA1612A at 0xe000, irq 22'
Mixer name : 'VIA Technologies VIA1612A'
Components : 'AC97a:56494161'
Controls : 36
Simple ctrls : 22
CasperVersion: 1.284
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
IwConfig:
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
ppp0 no wireless extensions.
LiveMediaBuild: Lubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta i386 (20110921.1)
Lsusb:
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 13fe:3600 Kingston Technology Company Inc.
MachineType: VIA Technologies, Inc. KM266-8235
Package: linux (not installed)
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=(loop)/casper/vmlinuz boot=casper iso-scan/filename=/boot/iso/lhostname-11.10-beta2-desktop-i386.iso nomodeset noprompt quiet splash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4
RelatedPackageVersions:
linux-restricted-modules-3.0.0-11-generic N/A
linux-backports-modules-3.0.0-11-generic N/A
linux-firmware 1.60
RfKill: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
StagingDrivers: zram
Tags: oneiric staging
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic i686
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
dmi.bios.date: 09/09/2003
dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies, LTD
dmi.bios.version: 6.00 PG
dmi.board.name: KM266-8235
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologies,LTD:bvr6.00PG:bd09/09/2003:svnVIATechnologies,Inc.:pnKM266-8235:pvr:rvn:rnKM266-8235:rvr:cvn:ct3:cvr:
dmi.product.name: KM266-8235
dmi.sys.vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc.
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