speeding up 7.10
 

Thank you, this makes more sense to me now. I ran "uname -a" and it does have the i686 kernel installed. So now I'm still trying to figure out what else I can do to speed things up. I'm willing/able to add more RAM, but would like to see if there are any other improvements I can make first.


I read that problems can be caused if you don't wipe clean your hard drive before installing Linux. When I installed Xubuntu 7.10, I chose the option that said it would partition everything and wipe out whatever was already on there. Maybe I should have wiped it clean first, and then installed it?


If anyone has any suggestions, I would be grateful to hear them. I'm running a laptop w/ 646 Mhz Celeron, 6G HDD, 192 MB RAM.

Thank you to everyone on the list for your patience with my emails!



Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 06:07:57PM -0800:
> I wasn't sure if that meant it's repaired or not, so I again tried "apt-get

> install linux-686" and received messages about it not being able to write to
> files. So I ran "mount / -o rw, remount" and the apt-get again, and it
> displayed a few lines, at the end of which it said "E: Couldn't find package

> linux-686" I Googled and found "aptitude install linux-686" and ran that; it
> seemed to do more stuff, but still couldn't find the package.
>
> So I guess the good news is that my system seems to be repaired/working and

> now I just have to figure out how to get the 686 kernel (assuming that will
> help my slow performance).


The 686 (and all other kernels) are now merged to a single kernel called
linux-image-generic, so there are only two kernels, -386 and -generic for

the desktop. The -generic kernel will enable all optimisations needed when
it detects a processor that can use them.

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Franji Mayes wrote:
> Thank you, this makes more sense to me now. I ran "uname -a" and it does
> have the i686 kernel installed. So now I'm still trying to figure out what
> else I can do to speed things up. I'm willing/able to add more RAM, but
> would like to see if there are any other improvements I can make first.
>
> I read that problems can be caused if you don't wipe clean your hard drive
> before installing Linux. When I installed Xubuntu 7.10, I chose the option
> that said it would partition everything and wipe out whatever was already on
> there. Maybe I should have wiped it clean first, and then installed it?
>
> If anyone has any suggestions, I would be grateful to hear them. I'm running
> a laptop w/ 646 Mhz Celeron, 6G HDD, 192 MB RAM.
>
> Thank you to everyone on the list for your patience with my emails!
>

Hi,

IMHO that's not much for modern linux (graphic using) system, although
xfce is fast it seems small to me. I use a Via C III 1 Ghz with 1 GB RAM
and it's not too fast (no, it isn't bad!).

Best - if you using the laptop only local - looking for services to kill...
(no ssh needed -> kill, no ....) there's always a lot running. And yes,
RAM is indeed a good thing. And look for DMA on your harddisk (man hdparm),
that may be of essential speedup.

joerg

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