Performance Improvements

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Its hard to comment as you haevn't really said what isn't snappy enough. 
Its quite possible that you've got it as good as it gets right now based 
on your hardware.  Which distro are you running?

On Sat, 25 Nov 2006, James McDonald wrote:

> 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
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