RE: redhat 7.3 and performance

[Adam Ellis <AdamE AccelGrp com>]

This is a good thread...I'm all ears on performance enhancement techniques.
Regarding your question about sendmail...you can stop that from starting up
using the Service Configuration program in XWindows.  Kill anything that you
don't need - it will improve your performance a bit.  You can also speed
things up using the 'renice' program to adjust the program priority.
Something like this in your /etc/rc.local file should help:

/usr/bin/renice -10 -p `/bin/ps -elf | /bin/grep /etc/X11/X | /bin/awk
'{print $4}' | /usr/bin/head -1`

You might also want to look at things such as the preemptive kernel patch or
faster journaling filesystems like reiser.  

BTW, my system can go from selecting the kernel to boot in grub to a fully
loaded KDE desktop in one minute and ten seconds.  Not nearly where I'd like
it to be (I'd like to see 30-45 seconds), but it is vastly improved from my
initial installation.  

AE

-----Original Message-----
From: Petri Somerkari [mailto:pete replicadesigns net]
Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 3:52 PM
To: redhat-list redhat com
Subject: Re: redhat 7.3 and performance


Matthew Boeckman wrote:

>> Is gnome perhaps lighter than KDE.
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> IMHO, if you really want a screaming fast desktop drop both Gnome and 
> KDE for WindowMaker (www.windowmaker.org) or other lightweight windows 
> manager.
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The case is not that I want screaming fast desktop, but I feel I want at 
least something that is as fast as ms-winXP. At the moment RedHat is not 
coming close to that. Booting still takes minutes and even opening 
applications like terminal or mozilla takes nearly 1 minute.

While booting the system starts sendmail most of the time... any clues 
how to get rid of that problem ?

P.




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