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Originally Posted by MetalheadGautham
@ gary4gar:
take a look at some of my work: Optimize Ubuntu For Speed
And yes, create swap corrosponding to your ram.If 1GB < ram < 2GB , swap = 1.75 times RAM. If ram > 2GB, swap = 1.5 times RAM. |
Are you crazy? You don't even need a swap file if you haf 1GB+ RAM. I haf 2GB RAM and haf a 188MB swap part. just for the sake of it. The RAM consumption never exceeds 800MB no matter how many apps I load.. and the swap has NEVER been used till date...
So to speed up things.. the best things are:
1) Upgrade RAM to highest amount and frequency you can afford
2) Upgarde processor with the highest cache you are afford
3) Chuck GNOME and use something lighter (Xfce, LXDE etc.)
4) Use utils like preload, readahead, writeback etc.
These are the only practical things I can think of which haf given a boost. Other than this.. all those "speed up your ubuntu guides" are useless.
And yes, if you use a fairly modern processor and kernel then there is major difference in speed even if you compile your own kernel in ubuntu. Ubuntu is slow by nature compared to other distros.