On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Rich Healey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 09:12:06AM -0500, Preston Boyington wrote: > >> Chris Bannister wrote: > >> <snipped> > >>> Where are your bottlenecks? > >> currently my two biggest bottlenecks are with the networking and the > >> MTA. i installed "ifplugd" and set a faster timeout for the network > and > >> that has helped. i don't really "need" a MTA for my laptop and will be > >> looking for some alternative. have thought about just removing Exim > and > >> dealing with whatever dependency issues arise. i can always just look > >> at the log files for info if i need to. > > > > I think that is a DNS lookup issue. > > > >>> I altered the link from /bin/sh to point to /bin/dash instead of > >>> /bin/bash but I'm not sure if I got a big improvement. It seems > >>> reasonably fast though. :-) > >> i have been using zsh recently and it has worked pretty well so far. > > > > No, the shell *you* use is determined by the line in /etc/passwd. What I > > meant was the shell used to execute the initscripts. > > > > What does: > > > > # ls -al /bin/sh > > > > produce? > > > > If it comes back as pointing to /bin/bash then try pointing /bin/sh to > > /bin/dash and see if there is any improvement. > > use xfce4 instead of gnome or kde. it help a lot. my laptop is old via c3 processor. run more happy with xfce. using gnome will take some time to open window especially nautilus use so much resource.
