Yesterday I read a few posts on the Arch forums about which filesystem was best for pacman speed, and today I read a thread about mounting a ramdisk (ie: a block of RAM used like a harddrive). My brain-lightbulb came on, and I wondered how Pacman would perform if I loaded all the files into [...]
Filed in Linux, under Arch, Disk, Linux, Optimize, Performance, RAM on June 29, 2008
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It’s amazing how fast we can change, isn’t it? I have gone from loving XFCE and using it exclusively to loving Openbox and using it exclusively in the space of about twenty minutes. I have always been partial to minimalism, and Openbox fits that ideal perfectly. I found that with a few programs and XFCE [...]
Filed in Linux, under Computing, Linux, Minimal, Openbox, Performance, XFCE4 on May 3, 2008
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I decided to have a little fiddle around with the swappiness level of my kernel today, and am happy to report my results.
For those of you don’t know, swappiness is a number between 0 and 100 (inclusive) which controls how much stuff is stored in RAM. At a swappiness of 0, everything is stored in [...]
Filed in Linux, under Computer, Kernel, Linux, Performance, RAM, Swap, Swappiness on April 26, 2008
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