Optimizing Slackware: Help appreciated!

[rogerdugans]

The story:
Due to the difficulties in getting Fedora (which I am used to, somewhat) running properly on NForce2 mobos, I have been trying out many other distros- so far, Slackware 9.1 is the one I have had the most success with, and like best.

BUT- it just does NOT seem to run as fast! (Based on running Seti@home and the processing times with both Slack and Fedora-using a separate nic for Fedora. )

I have compiled one of my own kernels so far using the 2.4.22 kernel and i686 but if anything it seems slightly slower than the stock, bare.i kernel used when I installed.

I did download the 2.6 kernel and I'm going to try that.....(wish me luck!) but I am sure that I am missing a lot of tweaks and performance enhancements since I am not what you would call "highly experienced" at optimizing linux, or kernels.

Any help on which/what/where and how are appreciated!

 

[DarkArctic]

You could use prelink. It speeds up load times for applications. Gentoo has a guide for prelinking (but other than compiling it I think the rest of the instrctions will do find). Also freshmeat has the package available for download.

Freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/prelink/?topic_id=253
Gentoo Prelinking Guide: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/prelink-howto.xml

-DarkArctic

 

[Altima]

Just make sure your not running any services you don't need. Building your own kernel will usually run slower than the "bare.i". You custom kernel is probably quite a bit bulkier than the stock one. Honestly though, with 3+ GHz, you won't notice a damn difference between them.