Rickey Moore wrote:
I wonder what could be done to speed Linux/X up?
Mike, I've been on this rant for a LONG time! :) Runlevel 4 just sits there. Why not have X and X only running, with no server or network features at all. Zip, Nada, nothing in the way of deamons. Compose office stuff or code, play video games, Dvd movies, anything local requiring more speed. When you need the network, or to run server
Well...
I don't compose Office Stuff. I do code, but usually want more than one window open for editing and compiling. I don't play video games on my computer, nor watch movies. The only other thing I really do is research the web, or read e-mail, both of which require network connections.
stuff, runlevel 5 time. Would that provide any significant gain in X responsivness? Anyone care to guess? I dnloaded an app called alsakiller or something to that effect, ALSA eats up about 3% of the CPU share, I think I'd kill that off and just run OSS in runlevel 4, for the games and video. whatchothink, Ric
I suspect that most of the slowness for *my* computer has nothing to do with that so much as that Linux eats memory like there is no tomorrow. So loading *anything* requires retiring a bunch of cache or swapping virtual memory. My CPU is hardly ever loaded more than 20%, and usually much less than 10%. When it is slow, I hear the disc going nuts.
top - 23:59:30 up 1 day, 10:56, 5 users, load average: 0.10, 0.35, 0.44 Tasks: 82 total, 2 running, 80 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 8.3% us, 1.7% sy, 0.0% ni, 89.7% id, 0.0% wa, 0.3% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 248088k total, 241792k used, 6296k free, 15128k buffers Swap: 524120k total, 185244k used, 338876k free, 50680k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 4150 root 15 0 186m 23m 5560 S 4.0 9.6 163:23.20 X 4578 jmccarty 15 0 30452 8776 4252 S 3.0 3.5 0:38.74 gnome-terminal 6269 jmccarty 15 0 169m 62m 13m S 2.0 25.9 47:51.04 mozilla-bin 4500 jmccarty 16 0 19240 3180 2568 S 0.3 1.3 2:41.40 clock-applet 17040 jmccarty 16 0 3008 900 728 R 0.3 0.4 0:00.04 top 1 root 16 0 2064 276 252 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.95 init
Mike