On Thursday 20 November 2003 08:13 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Fellow Linux Users, > I'm in the process of setting up Linux on my desktop machine, and am > wondering what I can do to optimize the machine’s performance. I'm using > reiserfs, I've tweaked the hard drive with hdparm, and I've set up > prelinking. Since I'm running Gentoo, I’ve also taken advantage of some of > Gentoo’s distro-specific performance enhancements (tweaked the use and > compile time flags, used the desktop tuned Gentoo kernel sources). Are > there any other general tweaks I can do to enhance > responsivness/performance? This box is intended for everyday desktop use > with a fair amount of gaming. Thanks
With Gentoo, you might want to consider xfs rather than reiser, but only if you have your system attached to a good ups. If you stick with reiserfs, use both notail and noatime parameters. I also recommend that you use metalog as your system logger. For graphical performance, stay away from KDE or Gnome as your default desktop. Although I found both to be very responsive on my Gentoo box. For more performance tips, read through the on line Gentoo docs, they are really quite informative, even to a non-sysadmin/desktop end user like myself. I hope you had better luck with prelinking than I did, it completely hosed my system - fortunately I had a backup. > p.s. > Has anyone had good or bad experiences wtih a specific domain registrar? GoDaddy has been good for me so far. It came highly recommended by several other folks on another list I subscribe to. Good luck. z -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
