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Sanome
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 Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 11:25 pm Post subject: Post install basic tweaks |
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Hi - are there any basic performance tweaks that you can deploy from this basic starting point?:
Universal live cd
Stage 3
Portage from cd
gentoo-dev-sources
Manual kernel compile
Post install:
Packages cd - emerged kdelibs arts kdebase
(& couple of other things like iptables & firefox from the net)
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TheRAt
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| Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 11:40 pm Post subject: |
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hdparm (for disk performance)...
Try | Code: | | # hdparm -Tt /dev/hdX |
(where hdX = your disk)
This should list some figures for you to consider | Code: | Timing cached reads: 2188 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1092.53 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 210 MB in 3.02 seconds = 69.57 MB/sec |
Also check whether DMA is enabled.. in most modern systems, this greatly improves disk performance...
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Sanome
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| Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 4:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks Rat - btw, does anyone know what version of kde will be included in the next GRP Package cd? |
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