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To: zeugma

Don't wanna hafta upgrade my Ubuntu 10.4 LTS! DON'T WANNA!

< /drama >

But seriesly, the one tip I've found for dramatically speeding up Ubuntu's (and probably other Linux distros') performance was to reduce "swappiness" from the default 60 to 10

9 posted on 05/30/2011 11:20:27 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)

To: martin_fierro

While I'm not a big Ubuntu fan, that's a nice advertisement. :-)

As for the 'swappiness' issue, my solution is to have so much ram that it's oozing out the back of the PC. My system almost never touches swap.

27 posted on 05/30/2011 11:40:23 PM PDT by zeugma (The only thing in the social security trust fund is your children and grandchildren's sweat.)

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