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Well im still going at it...
choasforages:
try recompiling the kernel. it should be fairly obvius, just read the howto, and ask plenty o questions
lazygamer:
Lol, well I should try KDE to. Is it generally faster? Although i'm certain that all these useless things I don't need are slowing it down. What's the magic thing I disabled to take away the GUI???
/skips over to yahoo to look up optimizing mandrake
PS:I'll get a book ASAP! But I ain't paying $50(maybe not even $2)0, so it's either second-hand, or a trip to the library.
PPS:Is there a Linux for dummies? :D
[ August 12, 2002: Message edited by: lazygamer ]
Kat:
quote:Originally posted by lazygamer:
The ram is also indicating it's mostly used. Either the meters are in-accurate, or my Mandrake is not optimally configured.
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It was explained to me that unlike Winblows, Linux actually uses your RAM. When you need the memory for a program, Linux will release it. Don't worry unless a huge amount of swap space is being used. A good rule of thumb is to take the number of megabytes of RAM you have, double it, and make that how big you make your swap partition.
BTW, a good book is Running Linux from O'Reilly. But, if you don't want to buy a book, you can always scour the vast resources online. Instead of Yahoo, try using: www.google.com/linux
lazygamer:
Well that's a relief, I hardly have any swap space in use!(even though I have 500mb available for Linux) But what, does Linux use the CPU too and free up what it needs at certain moments?
Gotta... tweak... services..., curiosity outweighs risk...
Sleeping Dog:
If you have limited RAM (or even if you don't), try to place your swap partition as close to the outer edge of your HD platters as possible. (Create it early in setting up your HD config. strategy.)
This will mean that the read/write heads will not have to move as far when accessing casched info from the HD and it can make a significant difference in how fast everything runs after booting. Boot time could be slightly slower, but you probably would rather have the speed increase on your applications. If you know that one or more of your applications in going to cashe to disk or need swap space, add that into your equation when determining the size of the partition.
Cheers and Beers
Sleeping Dog
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