On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 16:06:53 -0500, Thom Paine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you want to speed your machine up a bit without reinstalling your > > OS, the top few suggestions I would make are: > > > > 1) If you have a software-only TV card, get a PVR-X50 > > I have a 350 and a 250. 350 is doing the TVOut. > > > 2) If you don't have a decent graphics card, spend $70 and get a GeForce > > FX5200 > > > 3) Disable GNOME/KDE and use a lightweight windowmanager like fluxbox, > > fvwm, etc. > > I'd like to explore this option. I'm currently using gnome, but had > heard that fluxbox was faster for something like this. I'll look into > it more. >
For me in FC3, gnome is VERY slow (i'm running w/ an Athlon 2800 and 1GB of RAM). Even just clicking on icons too for ever. Swtiching to KDE gave me a substantial boost. > > 4) Disable any non-essential services in your startup scripts > > Already tweaked. > > > 5) Close any ports that don't need to be open in your inetd.conf/xinetd.conf > > None open except ssh. > > > 6) Check system stats with 'cat /proc/meminfo', sar, iostat, vmstat - > > react accordingly. If you're RAM limited, add ram. If you're spending > > lots of system time waiting for your disk, get a faster disk and/or > > balance disk I/O across multiple spindles > > Ram is good. at 1G. Hard drives are ata 133 with the 133 cable on them. > > > 7) ensure that your IDE drives are using dma (google for dma linux hdparm) > > HDparm has been tweaked as well. > > > 8) use a simple theme in MythTV and disable cpu-intensive options like > > transparency and other OSD options. > > Running GANT and I put al the options on CPU low that I could find. > > Thanks. > -- > -=/>Thom > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > >
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