Thanks stephen
On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 22:57, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 13:35, David Sexton wrote: > > I am running Mandrake 8.2 on my Dell Laptop with 850 PII 128mb of ram. > > I was wondering if any one had any sugestions on how to speed it up. I > > am in the process of getting 256 MB more of ram. Duse any one have any > > ideas. I don't want to upgrade to 9.0 yet as I have a lot of tweaks > > running on it right now. > > > > > > David > > You can first do something about the HD access timings. > If you have hdparm installed, you can use it to "tweak" the speed at > which I/O is handled by the disk and the controller. A great generic one > is: > > hdparm -d1 -p2 -X66 /dev/hda > > If you don't have it installed, it's probably on either CD1 or CD2 of > your MDK installation set. You might be surprised at how much that > increases your overall system speed. > > -- > Thu Dec 12 15:55:01 EST 2002 > 3:55pm up 1 day, 8:17, 6 users, load average: 1.46, 1.84, 1.96 > > .o0 linux user:267497 0o. > -------------------------------- > | __ __ | kühn media australia > | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com > | .\__/ || | | | > | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn > | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > | |'. `\ | | | icq: 5483808 > | ;"""/ / | | | > | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 > | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU > -------------------------------- > Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn > > A hundred thousand lemmings can't be wrong! > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Linux Rules
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