Slow Linux? Read this.

[Fintan]

I came across this today and it may help speed up Linux desktops performance under certain situations

http://rudd-o.com/archives/2007/10/0...w-to-fix-that/

I hope this is useful to you out there

[dibl]

Re: Slow Linux? Read this.

Wow -- nice catch, Fintan -- thanks!

[Fintan]

Re: Slow Linux? Read this.

Yeah, and it works as well.
bthw thanks for todays prize

[Detonate]

Re: Slow Linux? Read this.

I've been using this tweak for several months, and it does speed things up. I have 2 GB of ram, and have my vm.swappiness set to 10. My system never uses the swap file that I can tell.