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Scientia
May 26th, 2008, 02:10 AM
Hi, I read a post that said slow disk searching systems could be replaced.
How do i do this?
I'm running ubuntu 7.04 on a 700mhz PowerPC iBook G3.

Thanks all.
Noobs need help.

Living2007
May 26th, 2008, 02:14 AM
Hi, I read a post that said slow disk searching systems could be replaced.
How do i do this?
I'm running ubuntu 7.04 on a 700mhz PowerPC iBook G3.

Thanks all.
Noobs need help.
What is your RAM?

Scientia
May 26th, 2008, 03:23 AM
the computer's ram is 367 MB, and the swap i set is 841 MB. Thanks.

stream303
May 26th, 2008, 04:52 PM
Perhaps you are looking for an indexing-system like trackerd or maybe beagle?

With pre-hardy systems, you might obtain a nice little increase in hard drive performance with the noatime parameter in your /etc/fstab

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=801519

Living2007
May 26th, 2008, 09:17 PM
the computer's ram is 367 MB, and the swap i set is 841 MB. Thanks.
Maybe turn off "Indexing" and "Watch Folders"