Performance Improvements

[Ric Moore]

On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 11:15 -0500, Net Llama! wrote:
> 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

We have similar setups:

processor       : 0
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 15
model           : 47
model name      : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+
stepping        : 2
cpu MHz         : 2000.000
cache size      : 512 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 mtrr pge mca
cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt lm
3dnowext 3dnow up pni lahf_lm ts fid vid ttp tm stc
bogomips        : 4022.02

Maybe tossing a 3200+ in there would double your system speed...they're
relatively cheap now. Memory hog that it is, KDE runs like a scalded
ape. Ric