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bbirras
03-28-2004, 07:34 AM
well i just installed RH9 again (after a few adventures with other distros)

so here i am back to where i was a couple of weeks ago, RH9 up and ...well walking or maybe jogging and i remembered why i wanted to try another distro........... ..it's slow
i´m running it( so to say) on a XP2,2, 1Gig 3200/400ram, Nvidia Gfrc4 MX440 128 (i know,i know!) and inspired by the exelent tweaking 2k/xp threat in this forum ( win is just flying now) maybe we could work something out for RedHat/fedora core


Now, i really want to get more speed out of the OS, so with redHat
i did cut down useless services running
>system settings > server settings > services
(if you know a link for more in depht info on that matter..post it, please)


got the drivers for my graphic-card here:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/LO_20030328_6790.html
ati users should check out
www.3drage.com

.download the newest stable kernel( 2.6.4) at http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.6/
and got some instructions here:
http://www.redhat.com/support/resources/howto/kernel-upgrade/
and
http://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...&threadid=91503

so far so good

any other thougts and ideas and speed up tweaks for Red Hat?

changing from GNOME/KDE to something lighter like ICEwm would definately give a speed boost and cut down ram useage



the question here is : how to speed up RedHat9. ( i can imagine the same would work with fedora) so if you have some more tweaks up your sleeve ...............thanks

p.s. please ignore the spelling, no native english applied :hmm:
beaker
03-29-2004, 08:21 PM
use hdparm and turn on dma/32bit and other tweaks for your hard drive. No idea why these aren't on by default for Redhat.
http://www.justlinux.com/nhf/Hardware/Hard_Drive_Speed_Tweak_for_Linux.html

Using another windowmanger helps alot. I use Windowmaker and it is much faster.

Another option is to compile kde and xfree from source with CFLAGS for you processor. Both run much much faster when you do that.

When you compile your kernel learn about the different settings so you can optimize some stuff. Like by default I think the processor type in the kernel is just set to 686, where you could set it for AMD XP. I would also look at using some of the Andrew Morton patches on your kernel. He has some nice userspace latency patches.
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