Comments on: Speed up Ubuntu Linux!

By: Paul Reiber

Paul Reiber — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:04:37 +0000

Bootchart says the boot AFTER I booted with ‘profile’ was 18 seconds quicker than the one BEFORE booting with ‘profile’; from 1:29 down to 1:11. YMMV.

By: Paul Reiber

Paul Reiber — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 06:33:00 +0000

Happy to help!

This article was a WIN for me from the very first recommendation – I wasn’t aware of bootchart, and it ROCKS.

Thanks for making me (and others) aware of it, and providing various clues on other optimization tools/techniques as well.

I’ll leave you with one final (but controversial) recommendation for optimizing a Linux desktop:

*Switch to using Google Chrome instead of FireFox.* If you need FF for some specific feature or website, sure, use it… but Chrome runs SO much faster than FF, it’s disturbing to go back once you’ve gotten used to it.

By: aldeby

aldeby — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:38:22 +0000

Thank you Paul for highlighting this point!
I’ve just added it to the post. I was using relatime only while on battery with laptop-mode-tools, however there is actually no reason why not using it also on a daily basis!

Your feedback is precious, also the one concerning the mistyped referrer.
This blog couldn’t be this popular without contributions from users like you! Thank you!

By: Paul Reiber

Paul Reiber — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 08:27:48 +0000

Link is broken in item 3; I believe you want it to refer to: http://linux.aldeby.org/?s=managing+startup+services

By: Paul Reiber

Paul Reiber — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 08:08:02 +0000

I’m surprised you didn’t mention tweaking the atime setting on various mounted partitions.

http://we-are-all-robots.blogspot.com/2009/06/atime-relatime-and-noatime.html and others; google for ‘noatime relatime atime’ and enjoy the read.

End-users running programs requiring atime updates (mutt?) might still benefit from this; they can set the partition where mutt’s files live to use nodiratime rather than noatime, and use noatime on all OTHER partitions just fine. Google ‘nodiratime’ for more info.

Regards,
-pbr

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By: aldeby

aldeby — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:58:19 +0000

There still could be some.
The system boot up is far better optimized now on Ubuntu 9.10 than before, so the best thing you could do is check with bootchart if there is any program taking too long to load, other tips concerning the system part may not be of much of a difference although you could try by yourself – they can all be reverted!
You would get the major benefits from the GNOME and applications loading tips though.
If you have time to try please report back your experience!