Re: How to speed up your Mac.
On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 18:49:47 +0100, Martin Bock <ixel@gmx.de> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 11:15:59AM -0500, P Kapat wrote:
>> On 1 Dec 2007 13:47:59 GMT, Jack Malmostoso <jackmalmostoso@freesurf.ch>
> wrote:
>> > On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 14:40:10 +0100, stuart wrote:
>> >
>> > > What do you think guys?
>> >
>> > With such a slow CPU I'd get rid of both Gnome and KDE and focus on
>> > lighter WM such as XFCE, E17 and Fluxbox.
>> >
>> > This won't make Firefox or Openoffice any faster, but you can always
>> > replace them with Kazehakase (funny name, excellent and lightweight
>> > browser) and Abiword.
>>
>> Hmm, I have been looking for something like this myself for my iBook
>> G4 (1.2GHz 256MB RAM). How about the wireless? Is there any command
Funny, I'd suggest the same thing - then I i sit down and think about how I
used to run KDE nicely on 256MB RAM intel PC
that was only a 600MHz machine - Suppose one could argue that the demands
of the older version of kde didn't need that much resource. Still, I'd like
to think that you can get KDE up and running with your current iBook(And
with mine)(I've got 640MB ram, but much smaller cpu 500MHz) only I think I
need to sit down and understand what I want from my machine, performace
wise and start figuring it out from there.
I will recompile my kernel - use ppc, take off smp support and other things
I dont have and things I dont need - take off generic kernel defaults... I
dont know what they are yet though.
I suppose I'll need to investigate how to speed my boot time - make hdd
more responsive for read/write( hdparm) - I also think I want to disable
all the modules that I dont need.
Does anyone one think that compiling a kernel with the majority of drivers
as modules increases or decreases performace(I'd like to think it decreases
as more read/writes on .ko files and more time to load them while
booting...hmmm?)
Also I rekon I may need to (dont want to really) recompile some things that
are resource hogs and compile them with flags that are pertinient to my
iBook G3...gentoo sounds like the answer here( shudder ).
Does anyone think that more swap will help me( I've got 640 ram ) - and to
be honest i think my bottle neck is not the RAM(free -m tells me I'm okay
from ram...) its the CPU( so for a cpu centric option like compiling
software to suit the suit like a glove may be the best option?)
Suggestions?
And I like GNOME and KDE and i WANT to use them - I dont want to use the
lighter WMs, because they are just not nice and cool. So I want to figure
this one out!
Kid regards,
Stuart
>
> In that case add RAM. Also consider changing the hardisk to a recent
> one. That *does* help with startup times of beasts like openoffice and
> firefox.
>
>> line version for NetworkManger? In Gnome, KDE we have either nm-applet
>> or network-manager-kde.... I have been playing around with iwconfig
>> and iwlist but didn't meet with any success.
>>
>> In my case, I HAVE to use one KDE app (for which I do some occasional
>> development too), so I'll need to keep the KDE libs and programs and
>> run it once a while, but I need not run kdesktop. I can happily run
>> icewm if I can get a command line approach for the wireless network
>> that would be good.
>>
>> --
>> Regards
>> PK
>> --------------------------------------
>> http://counter.li.org #402424
>
> Best regards,
>
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> Martin Bock :wq
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