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Improving Fedora performance?

Much as I love Fedora, I'm finding it sluggish running on my laptop, compared to other OS' I've tried.

In short, I want to improve the performance of Fedora. I've already gone into chkconfig and disabled everything I don't need, which has helped a fair bit, but I want to go further and basically strip down Fedora to a minimum.

Everything I've googled up so far has really only concerned individual applications as opposed to the OS a whole, so I'm stuck.

hi there

still what services have u enabled now also??
and why don't u consider compiling ur kernel????
and bring it down to minimum

regards

Well if I felt myself capable of compiling a kernel without setting fire to my laptop, I would-my last few attempts at it met in abject failure.

Below is services as they stand now. If you see room for improvment (probably lots), go wild:

Code:

[root@localhost downloads]# /sbin/chkconfig --list

acpid          0:off  1:off  2:off  3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off

apmd            0:off  1:off  2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off

sendmail        0:off  1:off  2:off  3:off  4:off  5:off  6:off

crond          0:off  1:off  2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off

cpuspeed        0:off  1:on    2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off

pcmcia          0:off  1:off  2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off

snmptrapd      0:off  1:off  2:off  3:off  4:off  5:off  6:off

messagebus      0:off  1:off  2:off  3:off  4:off  5:off  6:off

portmap        0:off  1:off  2:off  3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off

readahead_early 0:off  1:off  2:off  3:off  4:off  5:on    6:off

rpcgssd        0:on    1:off  2:off  3:on    4:off  5:on    6:on

xinetd          0:off  1:off  2:off  3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off

smartd          0:off  1:off  2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off

lisa            0:off  1:off  2:off  3:off  4:off  5:off  6:off

rhnsd          0:off  1:off  2:off  3:off  4:off  5:off  6:off

mdmpd          0:off  1:off  2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off

random          0:off  1:off  2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off

iptables        0:off  1:off  2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off

ntpd            0:off  1:off  2:off  3:off  4:off  5:off  6:off

vncserver      0:off  1:off  2:off  3:off  4:off  5:off  6:off

irda            0:off  1:off  2:off  3:off  4:off  5:off  6:off

nfs            0:off  1:off  2:off  3:off  4:off  5:off  6:off

irqbalance      0:off  1:off  2:off  3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off

syslog          0:off  1:off  2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off

cups            0:off  1:off  2:off  3:off  4:off  5:off  6:off

autofs          0:off  1:off  2:off  3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off

psacct          0:off  1:off  2:off  3:off  4:off  5:off  6:off

rpcidmapd      0:on    1:off  2:off  3:on    4:off  5:on    6:on

named          0:off  1:off  2:off  3:off  4:off  5:off  6:off

rpcsvcgssd      0:on    1:off  2:off  3:on    4:off  5:on    6:on

gpm            0:off  1:off  2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off

isdn            0:off  1:off  2:off    3:off    4:off    5:off    6:off

xfs            0:off  1:off  2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off

rawdevices      0:off  1:off  2:off  3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off

saslauthd      0:off  1:off  2:off  3:off  4:off  5:off  6:off

yum            0:off  1:off  2:off  3:off  4:off  5:off  6:off

mdmonitor      0:off  1:off  2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off

readahead      0:off  1:off  2:off  3:off  4:off  5:on    6:off

netfs          0:off  1:off  2:off  3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off

network        0:off  1:off  2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off

nfslock        0:off  1:off  2:off  3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off

netplugd        0:off  1:off  2:off  3:off  4:off  5:off  6:off

snmpd          0:off  1:off  2:off  3:off  4:off  5:off  6:off

anacron        0:off  1:off  2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off

microcode_ctl  0:off  1:off  2:off  3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off

smb            0:off  1:off  2:off  3:off  4:off  5:off  6:off

sshd            0:off  1:off  2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off

kudzu          0:off  1:off  2:off  3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off

atd            0:off  1:off  2:off  3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off

httpd          0:off  1:off  2:off  3:off  4:off  5:off  6:off

netdump        0:off  1:off  2:off  3:off  4:off  5:off  6:off

xinetd based services:

        echo-udp:      off

        services:      off

        cups-lpd:      off

        daytime-udp:    off

        chargen:        off

        rsync:  off

        time-udp:      off

        time:  off

        sgi_fam:        on

        echo:  off

        chargen-udp:    off

        ktalk:  off

        daytime:        off

To provide more information, the laptop is a dualboot with Windows XP. Its mostly intended for web browsing and maintainance/repair work (I find several linux utilites for data recovery and networking to be far superior to anything I've used on windows). About the heaviest app that would be running normally would be Firefox, which is a bit of a hog.

hi there

u can consider closing down nfs,netfs and other nfs based services
and i am not able to post my lisitng here
tried the code tag too for 10 times

regards

Done.

Okay, having read the first reply, I really think I should go about recompiling the kernel. I've a horrible stability issue with 2.6.5-1.358 where my machine just switches off randomly, but with 2.6.8-1.521 its perfectly stable...and I have no sound.

I need to reach some sort of compromise. :p

If you can give me any pointers towards doing it, go wild. :D

hi there

i think u r installing precomnpiled rpm packages,if yes then frm where did uget that rpm packages??

u should compile urself a kenrel ,starting from the config file of ur 2.6.5 kernel

regards

Straight patches so far via Yum.

hi there

u should go for kernel compiling
get urself the latest source from kernel.org and get the config file of ur working kernel and build upon that ur new kernel

u can have a look at the kernl comilng tutorial from here

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ghlight=Dr+OZZ

regards

Aye, the compiler is running now. I'll see how it goes this time round.

hi

best of luck for ur adventure
and do not loose heart if something goes wrong,

it is worth this much effort

regards

Well my usual luck with compiling my own kernel seems to hold-still no sound and crashes, although I've traced the exact problem of them-the kernel isn't running the laptop's fans, causing it to overheat and crash out.

On the flipside, Fedora runs noticeably faster and it boots up in half the time.

I'll stick up my logs somewhere if it helps to trace the problems.

Either way, back to the drawing board.

hi there

so what config file are using to compile ur kernel.

i advice u to use the config file of the 2.6.5 kernel which was working for ur system

regards