Any ways to speed up linux?

[George Toft]

Hi Rick,

Rick Rosinski wrote:
> 
> George, Thanks alot for your advice.
> 
> I just have a couple of questions.
> 
> > I suggest ensuring your kernel loads the UDMA-66 driver (SuSE does,
> > RH and Mandrake do not, I don't know about Slack).
> 
> Where can I find info on the UDMA-66 driver?  I have customized my Slackware
> system so much now that any default configuration assumptions don't apply
> anymore.  I am am using 7.1 (or what was 7.1 until I upgraded lots of system
> tools and utilities just to get Kernel 4.1 off the ground).
> 

Sorry, I can't find anything.  From what I saw on the 'Net, it is
motherboard chipset specific.  It just happened that SuSE loaded
them and Mandrake did not.


>  > Next, try mounting your partitions so they do not track atime.  I read
> 
> would I find this in "man mount"?  Where can I find info about disabling
> "atime"?

man mount.  Option -o noatime:
noatime
Do  not  update  inode  access times on this
file system (e.g, for faster access  on  the
news spool to speed up news servers). 


> Thanks alot for your advice.
> 
> >
> > 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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