Shadowchaser Posted May 17, 2005 Report Share Posted May 17, 2005 Linux in Govt: Optimizing your Desktop prt 1 enjoy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solarian Posted May 17, 2005 Report Share Posted May 17, 2005 thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VeeDubb Posted May 18, 2005 Report Share Posted May 18, 2005 for anybody who sees this, i adjusted my swappiness and got rid of every running service I didn't absolutely need (which meant about half of them) and the speed increase compared to an otherwise clean install of 2k5 was astounding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted May 18, 2005 Report Share Posted May 18, 2005 I seem to be a little snappier to Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted May 18, 2005 Report Share Posted May 18, 2005 (edited) my one-step guide to optimizing your desktop: install a version of linux that gives you more control :P Â arch, gentoo, or go crazy and do LFS... ;) Â (for anyone who was about to flame at me or whatever, i'm just messing with ya ) Edited May 18, 2005 by tymark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted May 18, 2005 Report Share Posted May 18, 2005 /me puts away torch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted May 18, 2005 Report Share Posted May 18, 2005 well all I did was swapiness and vt's and see a diff I had already done everything else so 'what distro' has little to do with getting an increase because every distro I've ever used has 6 vt's and I'd *guess swapiness=60 is a default across the board Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VeeDubb Posted May 18, 2005 Report Share Posted May 18, 2005 Yup, according to the article, swappiness=60 is pretty universal for anyone making a kernel for distribution. It's one of those things that makes it work for people with sucky computers, without hurting speed 'too' much for the rest of us. And for us, it's easily changed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadowchaser Posted May 18, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 18, 2005 I too got a noticable increase in speed. Gotta love it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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