[luau] Fedora Core 1 seems slow
Hi Guys, I've just finished installing Fedora Core 1 and to be honest, I'm kind of disappointed. It seems really slow compared to Debian. I'm using it on a PIII 450 MHz IBM ThinkPad 390x with 160 MB or ram. I used to run Debian unstable and that worked fine. I'm wondering if there's something I need to do to speed up Fedora. I think I did a pretty standard install. Could I have put on too much? Are there things I need to shutdown? Would updating to the latest versions of packages help things? - Tom Hackett
Re: [luau] Fedora Core 1 seems slow
Thomas Hackett wrote: Hi Guys, I've just finished installing Fedora Core 1 and to be honest, I'm kind of disappointed. It seems really slow compared to Debian. I'm using it on a PIII 450 MHz IBM ThinkPad 390x with 160 MB or ram. I used to run Debian unstable and that worked fine. I'm wondering if there's something I need to do to speed up Fedora. I think I did a pretty standard install. Could I have put on too much? Are there things I need to shutdown? Would updating to the latest versions of packages help things? - Tom Hackett One thing that really helps desktop application speed is waiting for the automatic prelink to happen. prelink goes through all of your binaries and makes it so they launch and execute much faster. I think it happens automatically once per day in cron, but you can force it as root with: /etc/cron.daily/prelink As far as shutting down services, most of the services are disabled by default when you install FC, however there still may be some extraneous stuff. Use this command to list everything that is enabled in runlevel 3 (text only mode): chkconfig --list |grep 3:on Similarly use this to list everything that is enabled in graphical mode: chkconfig --list |grep 5:on Then use this command to turn disable services from automatically starting: chkconfig SERVICENAME off You can use this command to turn off a service immediately: service SERVICENAME stop Be careful about not turning off critical system services... Other than this, the only recommendation I can make is removing the "magicdev" package. It uses about 1MB of memory while logged into GNOME and doesn't do much useful. Sometimes it actually conflicts with what you are doing, especially CD burning. Where do you see slowness? Are you talking about desktop stuff? Try it again after prelink and let me know how it goes. Warren
Re: [luau] Limiting Access to Single File
Yes, that's the situation. The archives have a thread where a recursive chmod was done as root necessitating a reinstall. I was thinking of something similar and really want to avoid that scenario. Thanks for the help, Blake On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 10:01, Blake Vance wrote: > RH9: How do I limit access of a particular account to one specific file? Clarifications needed. Are you talking about limiting the access of a samba user's account to a specific file in a shared samba directory? --scott _ Enjoy a special introductory offer for dial-up Internet access limited time only! http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/dialup
Re: [luau] Limiting Access to Single File
Seems my ~9a reply never made it. Yes, that is the situation. There is a case in the archives where someone used a recursive chmod as root, which due to the circumstances, necessitated a reinstall. I was also thinking of doing a chmod -R but would sure like to avoid that scenario. Thanks for the help, Blake On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 10:01, Blake Vance wrote: > RH9: How do I limit access of a particular account to one specific file? Clarifications needed. Are you talking about limiting the access of a samba user's account to a specific file in a shared samba directory? --scott _ Have fun customizing MSN Messenger learn how here! http://www.msnmessenger-download.com/tracking/reach_customize
Re: [luau] Fedora Core 1 seems slow
Thanks for the tip Warren! I'm pretty sure that I was to quick to judge Fedora Core 1. I was reading about the new prelink feature while I updated the software last night. I noticed that now the system is much more responsive. Prelinking is actually a great feature, if you can stand waiting just a bit during the initial slowness. Does anyone know if there are other distributions which ship with prelinking enabled in the default install? Fedora actually seems pretty cutting edge. - Tom On Jan 7, 2004, at 2:35 AM, Warren Togami wrote: Thomas Hackett wrote: Hi Guys, I've just finished installing Fedora Core 1 and to be honest, I'm kind of disappointed. It seems really slow compared to Debian. I'm using it on a PIII 450 MHz IBM ThinkPad 390x with 160 MB or ram. I used to run Debian unstable and that worked fine. I'm wondering if there's something I need to do to speed up Fedora. I think I did a pretty standard install. Could I have put on too much? Are there things I need to shutdown? Would updating to the latest versions of packages help things? - Tom Hackett One thing that really helps desktop application speed is waiting for the automatic prelink to happen. prelink goes through all of your binaries and makes it so they launch and execute much faster. I think it happens automatically once per day in cron, but you can force it as root with: /etc/cron.daily/prelink
