Re: Make it fast

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The problem is: I want a modern desktop.

At the moment I'm compiling kde 3 drom cvs head to be sure that I have the 
newest version with lesser mem leaks.
I tried to remove all eye-candy things but it is slow.
Also I don't use netscape.


Now my desktop is tuned but I have to tune Linux.
I already remove daemons (e.g. webmin).
I can't tune more. There is only the Linux kernel which is a normal build so I 
thought there may be some things that I can set in the kernel config to make 
it a bit faster.

Maybe I should try 2.5 ?
This laptop has no critical mission.

have fun
Felix

Am Sonntag, 9. Juni 2002 08:37 schrieb Bob Toxen:
> > Hi
> >
> > Are there any standard things that I can do to tune my linux on the
> > laptop ? I have a vaio qr10.
> > Everything runs nice only the battery management (I will see in 2.5 ;))
> > and the speed. It has only 64 MB RAM and kde needs more.
> > What can I do from the kernel side to make linux faster ?
>
> Consider a less costly desktop.  My 25 BogoMips 486 24 MB laptop runs
> just fine with fvwm (Slackware).  You also might turn off whatever icons,
> dancing girls, and other things that you don't need.  Doing a "top" or
> "ps -axlww | more" will show what is using CPU and memory.
>
> Also, some programs, most notably X and Netscrape leak memory over time.
> Thus, you will want to shut down Netscrape every day or two and probably
> shut down X weekly to free up the leaked memory.
>
> > I use always the current 2.4 kernel
> > Ext2
> > Xfree 4.1
> >
> > thanks
> > have fun
> > Felix
>
> Best regards,
>
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