Fastest dsl-version?Forum: Laptops Topic: Fastest dsl-version? started by: Jens Posted by Jens on May 14 2005,17:43
Hey,Iīve currently installed DSL 1.0.1 on my old laptop (specs see topic description). In run this with 300 MB ext2, 300 MB swap and 200 MB for Windows 95. My question: Although DSL is usable now (in comparison to the live-version), itīs somewhat slow anyway. Of course this is no surprise - but can I do anything about it? Is a previous DSL-Version faster - or will they all be about the same? And would more RAM help a lot? And how about more swap-space? (Itīs all being used) Regards Jens Posted by Guest on May 22 2005,03:32
If all your swap space is being used, you definitely can improve you situation by simply getting more RAM if you can (486/50 you say? good luck.) In ideal situations, you should rarely see the swap space getting used at all.
Posted by cbagger01 on May 22 2005,16:50
First step:Get rid of the dockapps and the desktop icons. The dockapps can eat up to 1MB ram for each under certain circumstances. Edit your lilo.conf file and add "noicons" to your append statement. Then rerun lilo to activate your changes. Second step: Choose the "Minimal" desktop style. It runs faster on older computers. Third step: If not already using framebuffer mode, try using framebuffer instead of Xvesa. An example framebuffer boot code is: vga=788 (for 800x600x16bit) and rerun xsetup.sh and choose xfbdev server Why? xfbdev server is more RAM efficient than xvesa Finally, Use the Opera.uci extension instead of Firefox. Much better performance. Dillo is still best for speed on most hardware, though. Also, you could try some of the "failsafe" boot codes to reduce driver usage like: atapicd noscsi nosound nousb nofirewire noagp nopcmcia Posted by SuperLou on May 22 2005,18:08
How do I set up swap space? Under The little side status thing it says I havea "MEM" but "SWAP" equals zero.
Posted by Guest on May 22 2005,18:18
Right-click on desktop to bring up the DSL menu, then go to System -> Setup DOS swapfile.
Posted by SuperLou on May 22 2005,20:34
Why does this require a DOS partition?
Posted by cbagger01 on May 23 2005,03:17
It doesn't.It just requires a partition that can be both read and written to by linux In other words FAT (MSDOS, Win95) or FAT32 (Win95OSR2, WIN98, WIN98SE, WINME) will work fine. NTFS (Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Win Server 2003) will not work. |