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Evo
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 Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 9:56 pm Post subject: Gnome Responsiveness |
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| Is there a way to increase the responsiveness of Gnome. It's not too slow, but slower than Windows XP. I have a laptop with 512MB of Ram and am getting a 512MB upgrade, will that help a lot? |
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SnakeByte
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Location: Europe - Germany
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| Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2005 11:43 am Post subject: |
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Hi Evo,
GUI responsiveness depends (in)directly on several things:
Available and free system RAM - swapping kills responsiveness
Check how much free memory is left with i.e. "top"
Hard disk type and settings ( IDE drives should use DMA and unmasked irqs ) check "man hdparm"
Linux kernel version ( 2.4 maybe different than 2.6 )
Try the -CK patch set from http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/
which tries to address the responsiveness issue.
Try to compile gnome and its dependent libs with -Os ( for smaller size )
on systems with slow storage this helps loading times and frees i/o bandwidth.
what kind of machine are you using?
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PaulBredbury
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| Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2005 12:33 pm Post subject: Re: Gnome Responsiveness |
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| Evo wrote: | | Is there a way to increase the responsiveness of Gnome. It's not too slow, but slower than Windows XP. I have a laptop with 512MB of Ram and am getting a 512MB upgrade, will that help a lot? |
Kernel 2.6.13 has very smooth multitasking, with:
CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY=y
CONFIG_HZ_1000=y
CONFIG_IOSCHED_CFQ=y The extra RAM will only help if the responsiveness pauses coincide with hard disk activity (i.e. page swapping). |
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