Improve performance in Ubuntu

[VCSkier]

I seem to recall reading somewhere that installing the processor-class-specific-kernels is no longer helpful; I believe they patch the generic kernel to work optimally on all compatible processors.

[Quintin Riis]

I think the tweak is not so great:

Why do you paste output of free -m?

[jpeddicord]

Moved to Outdated. Many things/links here are not relevant to current versions of Ubuntu, so do anything listed with extreme caution.

[Izek]

Moved to Outdated. Many things/links here are not relevant to current versions of Ubuntu, so do anything listed with extreme caution.

You mean like DMA? (since dev/hdc doesn't exist for me?)

[lawalsulaiman]

Hi all,
pls. I want to install and configure cache_manager, squid guard and Danguardian on Ubuntu 8.04 desktop version. pls. I need a relevant document on how to achieve that.

thanks.

Lawal Sulaiman
UDU, Sokoto
Nigeria

[HotShotDJ]

SquidGuard: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SquidGuard
DansGuardian: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Servers/DansGuardian
Cache Manager: Isn't that part of Squid? See SquidGuard above.

(I didn't realize that this was an out-of-date thread. lawalsulaiman, for future, you should start your own thread for support rather than appending a thread with a completely different topic)

[dannytatom]

I just installed preload, is it still usefull or should I just get rid of it? ;o

[adambh]

Why not just tweak OpenOffice? The default memory management settings literally throttle OpenOffice into oblivion.

Open up writer, and go to Tools > Options. Go to memory in the sidebar.

Set number of undo steps to 30-40 max, have it use 64MB or more (128, if your system can afford it (at least 512mb total ram) helps greatly), boost memory per object to 5.0 MB.

Need a visual example? Try http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffi...ory/index.html, which I found via Google.

I wouldn't do the JRE trick that page mentions unless you REALLY never use those aspects. Still, the memory tweak alone is an impressive boost.

I adjusted the memory, it more than halved the time OO takes to load, brilliant!

[kpkeerthi]

I just installed preload, is it still usefull or should I just get rid of it? ;o

preload is not required. The kernel does it already (buffers and caches)

[Grievous]

Doing some of the steps now.