Ken Hawkins wrote on Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 09:19:44AM -0400 : > > Having played with both 7.2 and 8.2 as a dilettante, my experience has > been that 7.2 is much more resource friendly, and I don't recall ever > having to perform a hard reset. > With 8.2, I have taken a performance hit because of the resource req's
The following are just general recommendations. It sounds like you already have a good grasp of things, but this may be of use to someone else. 1) Disable framebuffer. Using cpu horsepower to render text can slow things down. 2) Runlevel 3 instead of runlevel 5. Don't start X unless you need to do something that requires a gui (this could be a LOT of the extra "resource req's" that you refer to if you're in runlevel 5). 3) Disable all services that you don't need. ie, if you're running a Samba server, you don't need httpd, proftpd, portmap, nfsd, innd, etc unless you also provide those specific services. 4) Personally, I also disable atd, linuxconf, anacron, apmd. 5) Try it both with and without devfs. I usually prefer to not use devfs on servers (especially hardware RAID servers where it has bootup problems). 6) Check the output of dmesg to make sure that the IDE chipset is recognized as being capable of udma. If it doesn't recognize it, it will act like it's a generic IDE interface and will cause it to operate very slowly (which creates high cpu loads). As an example, you can also 'cat /proc/ide/hda/settings' and look to see if using_dma is set to 1 (yes) or 0 (no). If your kernel recognizes a via chipset, you can see the configuration by 'cat /proc/ide/via'. > and all my computers that have 8.2, I've been forced into a hard reset > at least once in the last month. These are stock installs, I have not > D/L'd an RPM or source file, and installed only from the CD's. Disable devfs on servers. It serves a purpose for desktops, but not for servers (things aren't getting hotplugged...I hope). Blue skies... Todd -- Todd Lyons -- MandrakeSoft, Inc. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn Cooker Version mandrake-release-8.3-0.2mdk Kernel 2.4.18-20mdk
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