On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 8:26 AM, jeffry s <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

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> On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Rich Healey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> > 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.
> > >
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> 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.

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