ploft
February 1st, 2011, 07:35 PM
Hello, community!
I don't have an issue per se, but am here looking to improve my setup.
I run an ASUS eeepc 1201N (http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/18/asus-eee-pc-1201n-review/), dual booting Ubuntu and win7, and it was installed as 10.04 (made the Upgrade (not reinstalled) to 10.10)
I use it mainly for Mathematica/random web use/research(pdf/djvu/whatnot library)/ssh'ing to my box at home.
This is my second Ubuntu machine/install, but I still find things to customize/upgrade almost everyday, as I guess is common place amongst Linux users. Therefore, I reckon I might have a lot of 'trash' lying around the machine, slowing it down and taking up unecessary space.
Probably the most common solution is reinstalling it from scratch, and I will eventually do it once I have less work to do.
Care to guide me through the process of cleaning it up? Any common tips?
Here is the output of dmesg (http://pastebin.com/SKTPA1Yi). Some warning I am not paying attention to? Some obvious process I can tweak to improve boot time?
<user>@<host>:~$ free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1759 1452 306 0 299 703
-/+ buffers/cache: 450 1309
Swap: 3071 0 3071
I use gnome and am only running pidgin, chrome and terminal (two tabs (one is ssh, other where I got this output)) and am connected using wifi. Why the 450MB of used memory?
I followed this page (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwapFaq) to set up a swap file, seeing as I had not made a separate swap partition. However, it never gets used and I cannot hibernate (don't remember being able to, previously)
<user>@<host>:~$ fdisk -l
(...)
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 7956 63897600 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 13055 30399 139323712+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 7957 13054 40949685 83 Linux
sda1: win7; sda2: storage; sda3: ubuntu
<user>@<host>:~$ nano /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
/swapfile none swap sw 0 0
#/dev/sda3:
UUID=<UUID> / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
#/dev/sda2:
#UUID=<UUID> /media/store ntfs defaults,noauto,user,nls=utf8,umask=0222,exec,rw,s ync 0 0
#/dev/sda1:
#UUID=<UUID> /media/win7 ntfs defaults,noauto,user,nls=utf8,umask=0222,exec,rw,s ync 0 0
What other info can I provide? Feel free to redirect me to the proper community to find what I seek.
Thank you for your feedback.
I don't have an issue per se, but am here looking to improve my setup.
I run an ASUS eeepc 1201N (http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/18/asus-eee-pc-1201n-review/), dual booting Ubuntu and win7, and it was installed as 10.04 (made the Upgrade (not reinstalled) to 10.10)
I use it mainly for Mathematica/random web use/research(pdf/djvu/whatnot library)/ssh'ing to my box at home.
This is my second Ubuntu machine/install, but I still find things to customize/upgrade almost everyday, as I guess is common place amongst Linux users. Therefore, I reckon I might have a lot of 'trash' lying around the machine, slowing it down and taking up unecessary space.
Probably the most common solution is reinstalling it from scratch, and I will eventually do it once I have less work to do.
Care to guide me through the process of cleaning it up? Any common tips?
Here is the output of dmesg (http://pastebin.com/SKTPA1Yi). Some warning I am not paying attention to? Some obvious process I can tweak to improve boot time?
<user>@<host>:~$ free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1759 1452 306 0 299 703
-/+ buffers/cache: 450 1309
Swap: 3071 0 3071
I use gnome and am only running pidgin, chrome and terminal (two tabs (one is ssh, other where I got this output)) and am connected using wifi. Why the 450MB of used memory?
I followed this page (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwapFaq) to set up a swap file, seeing as I had not made a separate swap partition. However, it never gets used and I cannot hibernate (don't remember being able to, previously)
<user>@<host>:~$ fdisk -l
(...)
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 7956 63897600 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 13055 30399 139323712+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 7957 13054 40949685 83 Linux
sda1: win7; sda2: storage; sda3: ubuntu
<user>@<host>:~$ nano /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
/swapfile none swap sw 0 0
#/dev/sda3:
UUID=<UUID> / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
#/dev/sda2:
#UUID=<UUID> /media/store ntfs defaults,noauto,user,nls=utf8,umask=0222,exec,rw,s ync 0 0
#/dev/sda1:
#UUID=<UUID> /media/win7 ntfs defaults,noauto,user,nls=utf8,umask=0222,exec,rw,s ync 0 0
What other info can I provide? Feel free to redirect me to the proper community to find what I seek.
Thank you for your feedback.