What Else Can Be Done To Improve Performance On Linux

Excuse the ignorance, but since I'm coming from Windows, where when you want to gain some improvement in your overall OS performance, you perform tasks like...

• Deletin useless files (to gain some HDD space, and also to clean your HDD from useless stuff)
• Defragment your HDDs (but in ReiserFS it do not applies since it doesnt get fragmented right?)
• Clean and even defragment your Windows Registry
• Tweak the OS GUI
• Etc.

So on Linux, what can you do, to gain more OS performace/speed ??? :blink:

stop thinking windows, NO DEFRAG superior file system!!! the only thing you will want to do is go yast>system>etc/sysconfigeditor>system>cron>clear_temp_dirs_at bootup
set it to YES, this will clear your temp files at bootup so this crud doesn't start cluttering up your HD. if you are looking for something like CCleaner forget it, it's up to you to configure your browser to dump crud on closing, and just keep an eye on your home directory. in windows the whole C drive is yours to clutter up, but in linux it is from the get go set up with two user, root and user, root is where you install, user "home" is your space, it is easy to monitor for junk...just clean it once in awhile....
there is no spybot, adaware, norton, mcaffe, etc etc etc

windows, though the dominant operating system via unfair business practices and blatant scams, is poorly designed, reg, defrag, drive by downloads, spyware, viruses, are a thing of the past once you switch to linux, the only reason to have an antivirus is to insure you don't pass a virus from one win box to another. if you want some top notch boot tweaking, by learning which runlevel services to shut down, you will have to search a bit on the forum, one of our mods BROCH, wrote a good tutorial, keep forgetting to bookmark it, sorry, I saved it to disk.

There are two important things to remember.....one that you have to forget what you have been indoctrinated on (windows way of thinking...remember most viable OS are unix like so by learning a new way of thinking will open these systems to you) and two, that you DO have a learning curve ahead of you, but we are here ready to help. good luck on learning this incredible, extremely tweakable, open source OS.

a good place to start, and I tend to repeat this quite a bit, is go to LABIX.ORG and look for the Smart package manager, look for the one that is SuSE, there are two, the opensuse and the guru pascal blasser one, choose the guru one, what this is, is a program which comes preconfigured whith channels, these are the servers where you can get thousands of free programs, as well as necessary updates, there you can download, all sorts of themes for your gui, video encoders, editors, games, etc, etc etc, this also helps you from having to add the repository channels to yast manually which you should learn eventually, because yast is the default package manager for SuSE, just doesn't come with any repos pre-configured for noobies.
also if you go to your Kmenu (start) and look for configure settings, there you can change everything your heart desires, wallpapers, themes, decorations, etc, etc, plus you should google COMPIZ BERYL and check out what this OS is capable of. though I would STRONGLY suggest that you learn a bit ablout SuSE before installing, such as learning how to properly install your Nvidia or ATi drivers and configure them, in time you will have the experience enough to troubleshoot things such as compiz beryl even though I believe in 10.3 it is installed by default, not sure, I am on 10.2

hope that was of some help

Thanks a lot for your detailed reply, I really appreciate the guys like you that take the time to explain in detail the "new order rules" on linux, as the ones that encourages you to continue in the learning curve of linux.

I have already learned a lot with the help of such nice guys like you, in forums like these, that teaches us, n00bies, how to do things and how to correct issues on linux.

It's good to know there is little or close to nothing to do in order to improve the overall linux performance, You are right about the change on thinking, but actually in this case I didnt know that there's close to nothing to do to gain/improve linux performance, this is my 1st. thread asking about how to improve the performance in linux. Now I feel myself better that I wont have to do all those annoying 'maintenance tasks' that I used to do on windows.

Along all this time I've used linux (almost 6 months ago, or something like that, I don't remember well), the experience of this new OS, has been quite amazing. One of the most exciting moments was when I learned (finally! lol) to install by myself the nvidia drivers for my own video card.

Despite there are a lot of things I still have to learn and that I tend to compare to windows, since that's the OS from where I'm coming from. Things like how to uninstall hardware (you must uninstall it in someway from the OS before removing it physically right ?) or how to install the drivers for some specific piece of hardware you have on you PC.

But I guess it's gonna take some time to complete that learning curve.

Cheers!

take a read here, i found it pretty useful

http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de/in...howtopic=45625

shows how to improve memory managment further by disabling all useless services.

Maybe one performance gain can be obtained by not installing or using Beagle if you don't need it. Indexing is time and cpu consuming.

Maybe one performance gain can be obtained by not installing or using Beagle if you don't need it. Indexing is time and cpu consuming.
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don't know why i didn't think of that :lol: i uninstalled beagle as soon as i got it really.