From: Bob Toxen <bob@cavu.com>
To: felix.seeger@gmx.de, linux-laptop@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Make it fast
Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2002 02:37:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200206090637.g596bZH07923@cavu.com> (raw)
> Hi
> Are there any standard things that I can do to tune my linux on the laptop ?
> I have a vaio qr10.
> Everything runs nice only the battery management (I will see in 2.5 ;)) and
> the speed. It has only 64 MB RAM and kde needs more.
> What can I do from the kernel side to make linux faster ?
Consider a less costly desktop. My 25 BogoMips 486 24 MB laptop runs
just fine with fvwm (Slackware). You also might turn off whatever icons,
dancing girls, and other things that you don't need. Doing a "top" or
"ps -axlww | more" will show what is using CPU and memory.
Also, some programs, most notably X and Netscrape leak memory over time.
Thus, you will want to shut down Netscrape every day or two and probably
shut down X weekly to free up the leaked memory.
> I use always the current 2.4 kernel
> Ext2
> Xfree 4.1
> thanks
> have fun
> Felix
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next reply other threads:[~2002-06-09 6:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-09 6:37 Bob Toxen [this message]
2002-06-09 6:55 ` Make it fast Felix Seeger
2002-06-21 13:53 ` E. Robert Bogusta
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2002-06-09 8:28 Bob Toxen
2002-06-21 13:55 ` E. Robert Bogusta
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2002-06-09 6:49 ` Felix Seeger
2002-06-09 6:24 Felix Seeger
2002-06-09 9:44 ` Patrick Onegin
2002-06-09 9:55 ` Felix Seeger
2002-06-09 10:58 ` Chris
2002-06-21 13:58 ` E. Robert Bogusta
2002-11-17 11:42 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-11-17 21:26 ` Felix Seeger
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