Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3605 mails)

[Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sergey Mkrtchyan wrote:

> I am running AMD Duron 750 MHz, 128 RAM with SuSE 10.0. Normally it is
> on acceptable speed, but sometimes (especially when running OpenOffice
> before extremly important presentations) it is quite slow.  

It is probably dead busy paging and swapping.  128Mb is really on the
low side, certainly when you're running Openoffice. 

> First, I do not need any network(at this time) and I haven't got
> printer and scanner, so can I turn off from the chkconfig the
> following services?:
> 
> cups (for the printer)
> mdnsd
> postfix
> sshd

Yep. 

> This is what I feel may be turned off, maybe I missed something...(I
> can post my chkconfig output, if you need)
> 
> Besides, do I need six mingettys, can I turn them off from
> /etc/inittab and leave only one?

Yes, you can turn them off. 

> Also there is so much files in my /dev, but I haven't got so many
> devices, does it eats resources?

Nope. 

I don't think any of this will make your system go much faster - for
Openoffice you simply need more RAM.  



/Per Jessen, Zürich


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