Performance Improvements

[James McDonald]

I have an Athlon 900MHz with 1GB Ram and 2 ~30,40 GB HDD

I am wanting to optimize the Linux installation so it is a bit snappier.

I have downloaded and compiled latest xfce4 which seems to have made it 
a bit bit better. But I am wondering what else I can do to give it a 
rev. Suggestions?

sudo cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 6
model           : 4
model name      : AMD Athlon(tm) Processor
stepping        : 4
cpu MHz         : 998.214
cache size      : 256 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 1
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge 
mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow up
bogomips        : 1998.91

MemTotal:      1035852 kB
MemFree:         38836 kB
Buffers:         86156 kB
Cached:         477880 kB
SwapCached:      53048 kB
Active:         650820 kB
Inactive:       285636 kB
HighTotal:      131008 kB
HighFree:          264 kB
LowTotal:       904844 kB
LowFree:         38572 kB
SwapTotal:      979956 kB
SwapFree:       818656 kB
Dirty:               8 kB
Writeback:           0 kB
Mapped:         416532 kB
Slab:            40628 kB
CommitLimit:   1497880 kB
Committed_AS:   859840 kB
PageTables:       3316 kB
VmallocTotal:   114680 kB
VmallocUsed:      7952 kB
VmallocChunk:   106484 kB