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Operating Systems Linux How do I boost the Linux performace Post 302255185 by otheus on Thursday 6th of November 2008 03:50:24 AM

11-06-2008

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Originally Posted by jayfriend

Thank you Otheus!

My PC is too slow even at boot up for some of the logins, it takes around 5 to 10 min to take me to the desktop after I enter the username and password.

I tested it without turning ON the VMware, but the performance hasn't changed much. Is it because I am using AMD processor. As far as I know it shouldn't be problem, please correct me if I am wrong.

For sure it's not the processor (Look at your vmstat; see the column "id"? that means what percent of the time (per second) that your CPU is doing nothing (idle).) I also suspect it's not memory since you disabled VMware. Therefore, I suspect it's (a) slow or misconfigured hard drive or (b) bad hardware on the bus causing too many interrupts.

Let's start with the hard drive.
How much free space do you have on your drive? Show us the output of "df - k" please.

Then Read this : Tuning IDE Hard Disk Performance

If you have a 5400 RPM drive and it's using a 33 MHz bus, then it's going to be slow.

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