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Posted: Aug. 11 2005,19:07 QUOTE
I have tried the hdparm tweaks, reduced the number of tty's and the noatime entry in the fstab file. Are there any tweaks that I can do to try and get a little more speed.
Some programs like firefox and limewire are slow operating. I am running a Ver1.4 HD install on a 233mmx laptop with 80 megs of ram.Would installing the complete xserver help any? Or am I just limited by my laptop?
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Posted: Aug. 11 2005,19:55 QUOTE
You could try making a swap partition and turning swap on thats what I do...
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Posted: Aug. 11 2005,21:28 QUOTE
Ive done that, so far the system hasnt tapped into it yet.
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Posted: Aug. 12 2005,04:42 QUOTE
Some basic things you could do are use the 'Minimal' theme, dont load any dock apps at startup that you dont use and use the .uci extensions when you can as I believe they use less ram. I know there are better suggestions but I cant think of any right now.
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Posted: Aug. 16 2005,19:11 QUOTE
Could removing some of the tty's cause some programs not to work? I downloaded mplayer but when I double click the Icon the cpu usage goes up for several seconds then back to zero and thats all it does??
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