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.
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Rick Rosinski
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