Hi I am seeking info from other people who has slow laptops, or just know how to save memory and CPU usage on a Debian system.
I am an owner of a Sony Vaio PCG-C1VRX/K laptop, that has a Transmeta Crusoe 600MHZ CPU, which is very slow in nowdays, but I refuse to change it as I love it. I have a Centrino DELL laptop, but I dont use that much, as I am just inlove with this thing, however I need it to be faster. I have a 2.6.11 kernel. I saw a major slowdown from when I upgraded to 2.6 kernel, from 2.4. Even disabling Discover, I now only have Hotplug, but boot time is still around 3 minutes. That is to console. From there, I booted KDM and KDE, and my full boot time was around 4 minutes and a little. I looked into smaller window managers, but finally I am using now XFCE, which is ultra fast compare to KDE. I dont use KDM now anymore, I rather log in with console and do a "startx" from there. However, still my boot time is unacceptable. Not even speaking when I try to open Kmail or Openoffice, and Firefox. They take a loooooooong time to boot up. Anybody has any more suggestions, how to make a speedy but usable Debian laptop? Thanks Bence -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
