On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 8:26 AM, jeffry s <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Rich Healey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Chris Bannister wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 09:12:06AM -0500, Preston Boyington wrote: > > >> Chris Bannister wrote: > > >> <snipped> > > >>> Where are your bottlenecks? > > >> currently my two biggest bottlenecks are with the networking and the > > >> MTA. i installed "ifplugd" and set a faster timeout for the network > > and > > >> that has helped. i don't really "need" a MTA for my laptop and will > > be > > >> looking for some alternative. have thought about just removing Exim > > and > > >> dealing with whatever dependency issues arise. i can always just > > look > > >> at the log files for info if i need to. > > > > > > I think that is a DNS lookup issue. > > > > > >>> I altered the link from /bin/sh to point to /bin/dash instead of > > >>> /bin/bash but I'm not sure if I got a big improvement. It seems > > >>> reasonably fast though. :-) > > >> i have been using zsh recently and it has worked pretty well so far. > > > > > > No, the shell *you* use is determined by the line in /etc/passwd. What > > I > > > meant was the shell used to execute the initscripts. > > > > > > What does: > > > > > > # ls -al /bin/sh > > > > > > produce? > > > > > > If it comes back as pointing to /bin/bash then try pointing /bin/sh to > > > /bin/dash and see if there is any improvement. > > > > > > use xfce4 instead of gnome or kde. it help a lot. my laptop is old > via c3 processor. run more happy with xfce. using gnome will take some > time > to open window especially nautilus use so much resource. >
I'm using xfce4 now. It seems to me it's also getting slower (been using for a long time now), I'm wondering if there's any tools to analyze the system performance? Thanks.
