Month: May 2025

Very slow when running Ubuntu on RPI 5

Very slow when running Ubuntu on RPI 5

Issue

After installed Ubuntu on RPI 5, the system is very slow, took about one minute just to launch the terminal.

Cause

Not using official power supply which caused the OS running under powered mode which slow down the IO operations.

Steps

To solve the issue, run following command and append PSU_MAX_CURRENT=5000 line, then reboot the device.

sudo rpi-eeprom-config --edit

References

Raspberry pi 5 8gb low performance : r/raspberry_pi