On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 06:59, flacycads wrote: > Since this little tibit of info in useful if you are dual booting with > winME/98/95 and Linux with more than 512MB ram, I'll submit it. There is no > problem with higher versions of windows. > > The thing to do is set the MaxFileCache setting in System.ini to 512MB or > slightly less, and the ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1. That way, windows will > use up to 512MB before using the swap file, you will eliminate windows > booting problems, and you can still use all the ram you have over 512MB when > you boot Linux. > > Also helps to increase the spare stack pages from the windows default of 2 by > adding the line MinSPs=8 (or 12) to the 386Enh section in System.ini. There's > more of these modifications, and they definitely improve windows somewhat, at > least to the extent it can be. > > I'm new to linux, so I'm wondering if there aren't similar modifications, and > where they can be applied- I assume probably somewhere in /etc files, but I'm > really a novice. Or is it generally that Linux is already configured > correctly in the first place, and none of these type tweaks are really > needed? > > Robert Crawford
In relation to your actual question... With RAM no tweaks are really needed until you get above 4gigs. ... I'd say it's safe to say most of us don't have near that much in the majority of our boxes. Above 1gig the enterprise kernel will improve performance more because it uses the ram more effectively. As for swap. Linux doesn't use a swapfile (it could but doesn't) it uses a swap partition. Dedicated to being only swap and never changing in size. (or on my box never being used either.... *grin*) The tweaks that seem to be the best on Linux come less with modifying the way it starts and more with modifying the way the hardware works, or in doing heavy changes to the kernel itself (Like low latency kernels, hyper-threading etc.) However for about 90% of the people/usage it's pretty darn optimized out of the box. MDK and the others are pretty good about making things work well together. James
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