Comments on: Slim Down and Speed Up Linux http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2007/12/slim_down_and_speed_up_linux/ tips and downloads to help you at work and play Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:13:58 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: David Legg http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2007/12/slim_down_and_speed_up_linux/comment-page-1/#comment-5281 David Legg Mon, 17 Dec 2007 09:54:14 +0000 http://www.lifehacker.com.au/tips/2007/12/15/slim_down_and_speed_up_linux.html#comment-5281 <p>Another good way to make your Linux boot and run faster is to install as small a system as possible. The first time you install, you may want to install 100% of the distro just to find out what is there. The next time, however, you can install the bare minimum (adding any omissions using yum install or apt-get etc.) This means that all your partitions are much emptier (and your disk seeks are faster), all sort of services, processes and other things that you might nto even know about never get started, accessed, run in background etc. The overall effect is a much snappier system.</p> <p>You can also edit start-up scripts to make things faster. A good one is /etc/grub.conf, which has a time-out that can be reduced from the default of 5 seconds to 1 sec or even 0 seconds. This make sbooting faster.</p> Another good way to make your Linux boot and run faster is to install as small a system as possible. The first time you install, you may want to install 100% of the distro just to find out what is there. The next time, however, you can install the bare minimum (adding any omissions using yum install or apt-get etc.) This means that all your partitions are much emptier (and your disk seeks are faster), all sort of services, processes and other things that you might nto even know about never get started, accessed, run in background etc. The overall effect is a much snappier system.

You can also edit start-up scripts to make things faster. A good one is /etc/grub.conf, which has a time-out that can be reduced from the default of 5 seconds to 1 sec or even 0 seconds. This make sbooting faster.

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