From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bob Toxen Subject: Re: Make it fast Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2002 02:37:35 -0400 Sender: linux-laptop-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <200206090637.g596bZH07923@cavu.com> Return-path: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: felix.seeger@gmx.de, linux-laptop@vger.kernel.org > 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 Best regards, Bob Toxen, President Fly-By-Day Consulting, Inc. "Experts in Linux & Network Security" Author, "Real World Linux Security: Intrusion Detection, Prevention, and Recovery" 700 pages Prentice Hall November 2000 bob@verysecurelinux.com http://www.verysecurelinux.com [Linux/Unix & Network Security Consulting] http://www.realworldlinuxsecurity.com [My 5* book: "Real World Linux Security"] http://www.verysecurelinux.com/sunset.html [Sunset Computer] Quality Linux, UNIX and network security and software consulting since 1990. GPG Public key available at http://www.cavu.com/pubkey.txt (book@cavu.com) and at http://pgp5.ai.mit.edu/pks-commands.html#extract and on the CD-ROM that comes sealed and attached to Real World Linux Security pub 1024D/E3A1C540 2000-06-21 Bob Toxen Key fingerprint = 30BA AA0A 31DD B68B 47C9 601E 96D3 533D E3A1 C540 sub 2048g/03FFCCB9 2000-06-21