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Boost system performance
Name: Chxta Date: April 2, 2006 at 07:58:16 Pacific OS: Ubuntu Linux 5.10 CPU/Ram: 400MHz/128MB Product: Dell
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Is there any program that I could use to speed up my system speed? Preferably for debian based distro. I kind of liked MemTurbo when I was still stuck with WIndows...
Name: 3Dave Date: April 3, 2006 at 07:34:23 Pacific
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How about disabling stuff you don't need (sendmail, postgres etc), recompile things optimised for your system as opposed to using precompiled binaries and maybe try parallel booting....I can enable it on my gentoo boxes and it attempts to start boot daemons together rather than one after one. Hdparm can seriously increase your drive speeds, make sure your swap is being used and if possible add more RAM. If you are using a GUI try a different light-weight window manager to KDE/Gnome such as xfce or fluxbox.
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Response Number 2
Name: Chxta Date: April 7, 2006 at 04:03:42 Pacific
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Thanks a lot 3Dave. I have installed XFCE. But for curiosity, how do I disable some of the stuff I don't need?
Was used to MSCONFIG back when stuck with Windows...
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Response Number 3
Name: 3Dave Date: April 7, 2006 at 06:22:50 Pacific
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Try installing bum (Boot Up Manager) for a GUI....but you should probably read up on runlevels, man inittab, /etc/init.d, /etc/rc.d etc
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