--- On Fri, 8/1/08, Prakash Jose Kokkatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 1) -so no hal automount too !it is nifty to have HAL
> automount feature for
> eg: when you plugin your smart phone or pen drive and
> nautilus/konqueror/dolphin pops up showing the auto mounted
> drive :)
HAL is good, hal is removed along with Avahi because of stupid Ubuntu
dependencies -- hence, I hate Ubuntu packaging. Avahi is a big bad useless
baggage on stand alone systems, like say, a laptop.
> 3) hdparm ? no I think.because ,in later kernels(>r than
> 2.6.19) libata
> takes care of the DMA things.
There _are_ other things tweakable by hdparm than just DMA. I don't know how
good they are with SATA hdds, but I defenitely recommend learning hdparm and
using it.
> 4) optimize your kernel by compiling with latest
> gcc(gcc-4.3 ?) for your
> processor specific ,also use makeopts=-j+1 for faster
> compile.
Optimization is NOT just optimizing for the CPU. It also means selecting out
useless modules, etc etc.
Besides, can you blindly use "-j +1" switch? "-j" spawns a sub-process
compilation for each subroutine. There was some formulae for that
RAM*something/something gives you the no. of threads to be given to "make -j".
Not sure, though. How about distcc? maybe on an SMP machine?
Thanks ;-)
-- Mahesh Aravind
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