Slow terminal response ubuntu9.10 running on windows 7 host

[amcouper]

I am running ubuntu 9.10 as a guest system inside virtual box (version 3.2.4) on a windows 7 machine.

When I use gnome-terminal or xterm typing is extremely tedious - it takes about half a second for each letter to appear in the terminal window.

When I use anything else (chrome, boa-constructor, text editor) typing is instantaneous.

I have tried removing .bashrc and .bash_profile but with the same behaviour.

Additionally, in ubuntu when anything is loaded, a box is drawn starting small and expanding to the corners of the screen. This box expands very slowly in steps of about half a second between each step on my guest system.

Could it be something to do with the video driver?

I don't have 3d acceleration enabled in virtual box (won't boot if I do), no compiz settings active - just plain gnome.

All help, and advice welcome!

Thanks

[Perryg]

Please post the log file for this guest (as an attachment)

[amcouper]

Thanks for the response. Here is a log file taken from the Virtual Box machine

[Perryg]

2 things to try.

In the guest settings (with the guest powered down)
(1) drop the RAM down to 512 MB
(2) drop the vRam down to 12 MB

See if this improves the guest.

[amcouper]

I tried changing the RAM down to 512MB, with the same results. Then changed vRAM down to 12MB and still the same.

Are there any other logs, maybe within ubuntu, which might be able to point towards the problem?

Thanks for the help!

[amcouper]

Yesterday, I ran virtual box and everything was really responsive. The slow rendering of the window expanding had gone and characters were appearing in the terminal as soon as I typed them. Brilliant!

I did not change anything over night - no update of virtual box, nor any updates installed on the ubuntu client.

Now I have run it (and restarted) and it is behaving in the old way - slow responses from the terminal and UI responses slow....

I'm attaching two logs: Smooth and Slow. Smooth is the one that worked really well yesterday, and slow is the one from today.

Anyone got any ideas what could be causing this change in behavour?

[fixedwheel]

I'm attaching two logs: Smooth and Slow. Smooth is the one that worked really well yesterday, and slow is the one from today.

the first entry in the slow log that is not in smooth, and following additional entries in slow:

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00:00:02.523 VUSB: attached '02aa3370[proxy 07ab:fcdc]' to port 1
...
00:00:26.089 VUSB: 02aa3370[proxy 07ab:fcdc]: reset request is ignored, the device is already resetting!
...
00:00:26.327 VUSB: 02aa3370[proxy 07ab:fcdc]: reset request is ignored, the device is already resetting!
...

looks like slow got some USB device at boot time whereas smooth doesn't

[amcouper]

fixedwheel - you are a hero.

I've removed a usb hard-drive and it is now super responsive...hopefully it lasts this time!

Thanks a load