Re: want to speed up laptop

2008-04-01 Thread Michael Yang
Nice guided information. Nearly hit all points on my laptop, ext3 plus journal But I'm not good at tuning the file system. Never touch or change it since created the partition and got the box installed. There's too much valuable data on it. I'll keep this as my plan and will exercise it if the co

Re: want to speed up laptop

2008-03-31 Thread Tim Channon
Michael Yang wrote: On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 8:26 AM, jeffry s <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm using xfce4 now. It seems to me it's also getting slower (been using for a long time now), I'm wondering if there's any tools to analyze the system performance? This might go down poorly with some pe

Re: want to speed up laptop

2008-03-31 Thread Preston Boyington
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: xfce used to use gtk1. It now uses gtk2 which is far more bloated which makes it slower. It also uses more memory... Icewm does not, and OpenBox may not either. You could try those. currently i use FVWM-Crystal as my default desktop environment with Fluxbox as

Re: want to speed up laptop

2008-03-31 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 10:46:44PM -0400, Michael Yang wrote: > On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 8:26 AM, jeffry s <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Rich Healey > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Chris Bannister wrote: > > > > On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 09:12:06AM -0500, Presto

Re: want to speed up laptop

2008-03-30 Thread paragasu
> I'm using xfce4 now. It seems to me it's also getting slower (been using > for a long time now), I'm wondering if there's any tools to analyze the > system performance? > > Thanks. > well, i wonder why GTK2 is slow. i never try KDE. but compare GTK and QTK which one more suitable for old compute

Re: want to speed up laptop

2008-03-30 Thread Michael Yang
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 8:26 AM, jeffry s <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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 Boyin

Re: want to speed up laptop

2008-03-30 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 08:26:13PM +0800, jeffry s wrote: > On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Rich Healey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Chris Bannister wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 09:12:06AM -0500, Preston Boyington wrote: > use xfce4 instead of gnome or kde. it help a lot. my laptop i

Re: want to speed up laptop

2008-03-30 Thread jeffry s
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: > >> > >>> Where are your bottlenecks? > >> curr

Re: want to speed up laptop

2008-03-29 Thread Rich Healey
-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: >> >>> Where are your bottlenecks? >> currently my two biggest bottlenecks are with the networking and the >> MTA. i installed "if