okay, we're back ;-)

[wizard10000]

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

[Telengard]

Re: okay, we're back ;-)

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?

[wizard10000]

Re: okay, we're back ;-)

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