How to speed up ur system

Hi uzer of opensuse i have used ubuntu before opensuse, for ubuntu u can find a lot speed up tweaks, but when i looked for the same thing for opensuse, i found only some tweaks installing clearfont etc, but not really how to speed up boot time and shuting down some unused services.

as i said before im not really familier with opensuse.

so if u know any tweak that would speed up system plz share it with me.

On 08/05/2011 04:26 PM, rasselzzz wrote:
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> so if u know any tweak that would speed up system plz share it with me.

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@rasselzzz
It may be that English is not your native language, but please try to write your English as correct as possible. Many people here do also not know English as their native language and you widen the barrier to them considarably,. This may lead to the point that people who may give otherwise very good solutions to stop reading your posts.

my bad, sorry… i will do my best to correct myself in further posts. u are right english is my 4-th language, but its not an excuse to make mistakes :wink:

We do not mind if you make mistakes. We all do. But to me it looks as if your write on purpose “u” instead of “you” and more of these. And these make reading of your English for non English people terrible (and maybe also for native English speakers).
Also please start your sentences with upercase characters. All these tiny things give structure to a written langage. I hope you understand this :wink:

I understand you complitly… I’m the man who’s not afraid to say you are right :wink:

I fully agree… and I was about to say the same thing.

So we all agree we should write as well as possible, with few abbreviations as possible. So, what about the original request for speed ups? Most speed ups that have worked for me seem to need new hardware, like buying an SSD perhaps, which does seem to help a lot on Linux startup and kernel compiles. But what about the free ones, that don’t cost anything? Like most things, there is no free lunch, but one item I have seen work is to reorganize your fstab file such that placing partitions in order and all partitions for a single hard disk together, seems to help speed up getting to your selected desktop faster. The greater number of partitions and hard drives you have, the more this seems to help. Before you decide to edit the fstab file, why not make a backup? Open a terminal session and enter:

sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.bak

If for some reason, you wished to revert back, then use the command:

sudo cp /etc/fstab.bak /etc/fstab

To edit the fstab file you can do the following:

For KDE use:

kdesu kwrite /etc/fstab

For GNOME use:

gnomesu gedit /etc/fstab

Here is an example of how I have setup my fstab file so that drives and partitions are in order. This is given for example only, your fstab file will not be the same:

/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Corsair_Performance3_SSD_1117810101000341020B-part2    swap            swap      defaults,noatime,discard         0    0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Corsair_Performance3_SSD_1117810101000341020B-part3               /home          ext4      defaults,noatime,discard          0    2
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Corsair_Performance3_SSD_1117810101000341020B-part4               /                   ext4      acl,user_xattr,noatime,discard 0    1
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Hitachi_HDS5C3020ALA632_ML0220F30MGP7D-part1                         /DataSafe    ntfs-3g   defaults                                    0    0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD3000GLFS-01F8U0_WD-WXL408720641-part2                         /Windows     ntfs-3g   defaults                                    0    0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-MAXTOR_STM31000340AS_5QJ0E8KF-part1                                          /Multimedia ntfs-3g   defaults                                    0    0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST31000528AS_9VP1AEZJ-part1                                                           /Software     ntfs-3g   defaults                                    0    0
debugfs    /sys/kernel/debug    debugfs    noauto                       0    0
proc         /proc                         proc         defaults                      0    0
sysfs        /sys                           sysfs         noauto                      0    0
usbfs       /proc/bus/usb             usbfs       noauto                       0    0
devpts    /dev/pts                      devpts     mode=0620,gid=5    0    0

Only the line to line order makes any difference here. What might you suggest as a free speed up in openSUSE?

Thank You,

To be honest I’m really greatfull for your help, but i think im not gona mess with my partitions, its fine the way it is now.
Yesterday something crossed my mind, i think if there is not meny advises about speeding up system i guess opensuse has reached nice level of booting and perfermance. if u look back for example firefox, few years ago there so meny things you could change in bout:config to speed him up, but now only a few line, what it means, i guess it means that develepers already took care of it and we dont have to configure meny things, so lets hope its the same for opensuse. I must say im using opensuse not even a week, and im very happy with my OS.

P.s love you guys !

To be honest I’m really greatfull for your help, but i think im not gona mess with my partitions, its fine the way it is now.
Yesterday something crossed my mind, i think if there is not meny advises about speeding up system i guess opensuse has reached nice level of booting and perfermance. if u look back for example firefox, few years ago there so meny things you could change in bout:config to speed him up, but now only a few line, what it means, i guess it means that develepers already took care of it and we dont have to configure meny things, so lets hope its the same for opensuse. I must say im using opensuse not even a week, and im very happy with my OS.

P.s love you guys !

So I am happy you like your openSUSE installation. My suggestions about reorganizing the fstab file is not changing your partitions and how they get mounted, but only changing the order in which they get mounted. Further, it only makes any difference when you have four or more partitions that you are mounting or two or more hard drives on which those partitions exist.

Thank You,

To find out what slows down the boot process on your machine*, you can use bootchart: Bootchart
The pocedure to install and use it is described in this post: Failed Bootchart tgz to png Conversion
You’ll find several bootchart examples in the forum. Here is one: My Boot Chart…

Don’t worry about the time it takes to boot into bootchart. It is normal. Once it’s done, take a look at the file /var/log/bootchart.png (with any image viewer/editor).

  • if it matters to you - but IMHO it should not.