[plug] slowdown probs

[John Knight]

Cheers for that, I'll give this to my mates then (I've got a decent PC).
I'd best sought through the rest of these replies now, thanks all!
John Knight

>
>On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, John Knight wrote:
>
> > This is such a newbie question that I'm almost ashamed to ask it, but 
>how
> > come new distros always run like bollocks on an old Pentium? Is it to 
>with
> > the latest kernel needing to be compiled or something to do with 
>XFree86,
> > what?
>
>1) KDE and GNOME are big and slow, don't use them on old computers
>
>2) Make sure you arn't running 100 default services that Red Hat and
>Mandrake like to do (like postgresql???)
>
>3) remove ldconfig from the startup scripts. You don't need to do this and
>with lots of librarys takes ages (esp with slow hard drive). Simply run
>ldconfig after installing or upgrading any library
>
>4) remove depmod -a from startup. Default installs typically install 100's
>of modules onto the hard drive and take forever for dependacies to be
>redone. Simply run depmod -a when new modules are installed
>
>5) recompile your kernel and include only what you need.
>
>Beau Kuiper
>kuiperba at cs.curtin.edu.au
>
>
>


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