Performance Improvements

[James McDonald]

James McDonald wrote:
> 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
>
>   
I forgot to show the hdd settings

/dev/hda:
 multcount    =  0 (off)
 IO_support   =  1 (32-bit)
 unmaskirq    =  1 (on)
 using_dma    =  1 (on)
 keepsettings =  0 (off)
 readonly     =  0 (off)
 readahead    = 256 (on)
 geometry     = 39693/16/63, sectors = 40011300, start = 0
root at mail:~# hdparm /dev/hdb

/dev/hdb:
 multcount    =  0 (off)
 IO_support   =  1 (32-bit)
 unmaskirq    =  1 (on)
 using_dma    =  1 (on)
 keepsettings =  0 (off)
 readonly     =  0 (off)
 readahead    = 256 (on)
 geometry     = 58168/16/63, sectors = 58633344, start = 0