Thomas Hackett wrote:
Hi Guys,
I've just finished installing Fedora Core 1 and to be honest, I'm kind
of disappointed. It seems really slow compared to Debian. I'm using it
on a PIII 450 MHz IBM ThinkPad 390x with 160 MB or ram. I used to run
Debian unstable and that worked fine.
I'm wondering if there's something I need to do to speed up Fedora. I
think I did a pretty standard install. Could I have put on too much?
Are there things I need to shutdown? Would updating to the latest
versions of packages help things?
- Tom Hackett
One thing that really helps desktop application speed is waiting for the
automatic prelink to happen. prelink goes through all of your binaries
and makes it so they launch and execute much faster. I think it happens
automatically once per day in cron, but you can force it as root with:
/etc/cron.daily/prelink
As far as shutting down services, most of the services are disabled by
default when you install FC, however there still may be some extraneous
stuff. Use this command to list everything that is enabled in runlevel
3 (text only mode):
chkconfig --list |grep 3:on
Similarly use this to list everything that is enabled in graphical mode:
chkconfig --list |grep 5:on
Then use this command to turn disable services from automatically starting:
chkconfig SERVICENAME off
You can use this command to turn off a service immediately:
service SERVICENAME stop
Be careful about not turning off critical system services...
Other than this, the only recommendation I can make is removing the
"magicdev" package. It uses about 1MB of memory while logged into GNOME
and doesn't do much useful. Sometimes it actually conflicts with what
you are doing, especially CD burning.
Where do you see slowness? Are you talking about desktop stuff? Try it
again after prelink and let me know how it goes.
Warren
