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    okay, we're back ;-)

    Finally had my fill of The Debian Way and reinstalled Natty. Added rog131's ppa back and installed smaragd, turned my favorite emerald theme back on, fixed devede by adding a VIDEO_FORMAT variable to /etc/profile and pitched network-manager, but I always do that

    Feels good to be back. Natty's memory footprint (~185mb) is about 40mb bigger than Squeeze on my netbook but I'm not done chasing stuff down and shutting it off.

    The netbook's pretty much done - the desktop will get done tomorrow

    we see things not as they are, but as we are.
    -- anais nin

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    Re: okay, we're back ;-)

    Originally posted by wizard10000
    Feels good to be back. Natty's memory footprint (~185mb) is about 40mb bigger than Squeeze on my netbook but I'm not done chasing stuff down and shutting it off.
    Care to writeup a HOWTO for obtaining maximum performance using your methods?
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      #3
      Re: okay, we're back ;-)

      Originally posted by Telengard
      Care to writeup a HOWTO for obtaining maximum performance using your methods?
      Sure - there's not a lot to it. I don't use akonadi or nepomuk - I don't use any KDE PIM functions so I disable akonadi by going to ~/.config/akonadi/akonadiserverrc and changing

      StartServer=true

      to

      StartServer=false

      I use locate, find and/or grep if I'm looking for something so desktop search is a little overkill - I disable nepomuk with the systray applet then remove the applet with

      sudo apt-get remove nepomukcontroller

      Services - I disable a buncha stuff. Basically what I leave running - at least on my netbook is

      acpid
      acpi-support
      atd
      anacron
      avahi-daemon
      bluetooth
      cron
      cups
      dbus
      kdm
      nfs-kernel-server
      preload
      pulseaudio
      udev
      wicd

      In systemsettings --> startup and shutdown --> service manager I disable everything except

      power management
      time zone
      status notifier manager
      input actions
      network status
      kmixd
      notification helper
      bluedevil
      keyboard daemon
      removable device automounter
      remote url change notifier

      All I really do is take a good look at which daemons are running and decide whether I need them or not

      Note that with the same stuff shut off on a 64-bit system it'll still use more than twice the RAM. My netbook idles at ~180mb but my desktop uses ~400mb at idle.

      edit: Some other performance stuff I do -

      - add GMABooster to my netbook and crank up the video chipset's clock speed to 400MHz (this only works on GMA9xx series chipsets)

      http://www.gmabooster.com/home.htm

      - set noatime in fstab on all partitions except swap

      - install preload

      - disable all plymouth themes

      - selinux and apparmor are disabled

      - acoustic management is turned off on all mechanical hard drives - wish my desktop's boot SSD had TRIM, but it's an older drive.


      Some of this stuff I wouldn't recommend on anybody's machines but my own, though
      we see things not as they are, but as we are.
      -- anais nin

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