Any ways to speed up linux?

[proudhawk@uswestmail.net]

I use hdparm on the hard drives.

command is like this:
/sbin/hdparm -c3 (turns on 32 bit transfers)

I put ithis command in one of the base init scripts, so that
it gets started early in the process (like immediately after kernel loading).

generally, it does make some noticeable improvements in how fast programs like X and netscape load.

Hawke


On Fri, 16 February 2001, Rick Rosinski wrote:

> 
> I don't mean to be long-winded, I just want to know if anybody had found any 
> tricks that makes a noticable difference in the speed of linux
> 
> I am looking for any way to speed up linux.  I have upgraded to the 2.4 
> kernel, and boot time takes less time.  Great.  If it improves the speed (and 
> smoothness) of programs in run-time, those hard drives are holding them back. 
>  So, I checked out some old PLUG mail and found stuff about the hdparm 
> utility (from "linux too slow") and I gave that a shot.  I found out that my 
> drives were already running in 32-bit mode - because the benchmark tests 
> yielded the same results.  I used "hdparm -Tt /dev/hda" to test the drive.  
> Then, I did a "hdparm -c3d1 /dev/hda".  This said that 32-bit dma was 
> activated.  Then I did hte hdparm -Tt /dev/hda again and the results were the 
> same.  I have 400 MB ram and two swap partitions totalling 267,544 MB, and 
> the swap is hardly ever used (using "free" and "kpm" (KDE Process Manager)).
> I tried to upgrade to XFree86 4.0.2, but the compilation forced out a kernel 
> bug in inode.c and that is too scary to try again (since inode.c is part of 
> the file management system) - and a crash that forced me to reformat a 
> partition.
> 
> -- 
> Rick Rosinski
> http://rickrosinski.com
> rick@rickrosinski.com
> 
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