Carl Hartung wrote:
I'm running a 900MHz Duron with one 512MB stick of PC133 memory and a dedicated 1GB swap partition. This system is still extremely responsive. It takes longer to load certain applications like OpenOffice, but once loaded I have no problems creating or editing files. I agree with the others that your most severe problem, a bottleneck really, is low memory. Try that first and see if your problems disappear. Hi All, Thank you all very much for your comments, I mistakenly posted 128 Mb ram instead of 256 (more sleep needed;)), but sure it has to be added. I will add it as soon as my wallet gets off the "drunk" state.
Here what I have done for optimizing performance. First off all I switched off all unused services(posted in previous letter) from chkconfig. Switched off mingettys which I do not need. For OpenOffice I have done the following(please correct me if I have done bad thing) From the Tools -> Options in the Memory tab, I increased the value for Graphics Cache use for OpenOffice.org to 128 Mb, and increased Memory per object to 20.0 Mb. The Office performance increased maybe not significantly, but quite a good, and at least the selecting of a text became much more easy thing to do :) doing linux:~ # hdparm -t /dev/hda6 gives /dev/hda6: Timing buffered disk reads: 60 MB in 3.05 seconds = 19.68 MB/sec I tried to do something like linux:~ # hdparm -m2c3u1 /dev/hda6 which gave /dev/hda6: setting 32-bit IO_support flag to 3 HDIO_SET_32BIT failed: Invalid argument setting multcount to 2 HDIO_SET_MULTCOUNT failed: Invalid argument setting unmaskirq to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_UNMASKINTR failed: Invalid argument multcount = 16 (on) IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) unmaskirq = 0 (off) and doing linux:~ # hdparm -d1 /dev/hda6 gives... /dev/hda6: setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Invalid argument using_dma = 1 (on) Do I did correct thing in OpenOffice, and should I do something with hdparm's? Thank you very much, Sergey -- Sergey Mkrtchyan Scientific Researcher Department of Molecular Physics, Faculty of Physics, Yerevan State University Tel: (374-10) 55-43-41 Fax: (374-10) 57-76-89 -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com