X300 SSD slow? being full slows it maybe?

[Bashar]

Dear all,
i've been using X300 since august, the day i got it i installed Linux ubuntu and took 50% of the disk for linux and 50% for vista (guess what out of the box 25GB is already used for vista!)

anyhow i feel the machine is slow not really like an SSD, i do have 4GB ram though

but comparing it with other SSD devices such as Asus EEE Pc the 8gb disk it boots into xandros linux (the default os it has) in 8-13 seconds for mine its about a minute

also day-to-day tasks are pretty slow some how, is it because of the low processor ?

just to point out my linux partition is almost full:
root@T42P:~# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5 29G 27G 501M 99% /
varrun 2.0G 124K 2.0G 1% /var/run
varlock 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /var/lock
udev 2.0G 56K 2.0G 1% /dev
devshm 2.0G 12K 2.0G 1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1 30G 24G 5.7G 81% /win

what might be the issue ?

Thanks in advance for sharing thoughts

[erik]

any drive will be slow if it doesn't have enough swap space.   it sounds like that's the issue here.

[Bashar]

i do have 1.3gb swap partition

or do you mean more space is needed at the same disk ?

it think its time to wipe out the windows partition and use it for linux...

[castagna]

I would bet that it is because of the full linux partition. My X300 with fedora core boots in about 10 seconds. This delay usually happens when home is full. BTW, why didn't you create a separate home so as you do not format it? My suggestion is to take part of the Vista partition to create a new ext3 partition to be mounted as /home. I just left 12 Gigas for Vista (since I nearly never use it). How did I? Follow these instructions
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=144783
and these ones
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Pre-Installation_steps