Re: [newbie] How to make 8.2 run faster
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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How to make 8.2 run faster
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
Re: [newbie] How to make 8.2 run faster
On Thursday 12 December 2002 2:35 am, 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 Just about the first thing everyone should do is recompile the kernel to suit the hardware its running on. I'm sure you will notice an immediate speed increase if you do this. Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
