Re: want to speed up laptop

On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Rich Healey <healey.rich@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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Chris Bannister wrote:
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 09:12:06AM -0500, Preston Boyington wrote:
Chris Bannister wrote:
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Where are your bottlenecks?
currently my two biggest bottlenecks are with the networking and the
MTA. i installed "ifplugd" and set a faster timeout for the network
and
that has helped. i don't really "need" a MTA for my laptop and will be
looking for some alternative. have thought about just removing Exim
and
dealing with whatever dependency issues arise. i can always just look
at the log files for info if i need to.

I think that is a DNS lookup issue.

I altered the link from /bin/sh to point to /bin/dash instead of
/bin/bash but I'm not sure if I got a big improvement. It seems
reasonably fast though. :-)
i have been using zsh recently and it has worked pretty well so far.

No, the shell *you* use is determined by the line in /etc/passwd. What I
meant was the shell used to execute the initscripts.

What does:

# ls -al /bin/sh

produce?

If it comes back as pointing to /bin/bash then try pointing /bin/sh to
/bin/dash and see if there is any improvement.



use xfce4 instead of gnome or kde. it help a lot. my laptop is old
via c3 processor. run more happy with xfce. using gnome will take some time
to open window especially nautilus use so much resource.

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