Optimizing Mandrake 8

[HypoLuxa]

Where can I find info on optimizing Mandrake? It seems terribly slow and I would like to speed it up. Trouble is, I don't know where to start tweaking. Are there any HOWTO's or anything out there on this subject?

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[bdg1983]

You could start with the hdparm NHF (http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/hardware/hdtweak.html) or the many others on the web.

Have you tried Mandrake's support site as they may have suggestions.

[Keyser Soze]

First what is the version of mdk? You do not need to do the hdparm mods on ver8(you may screw it up in fact). First look at your services that you are running, kill any that aren't necessary(if you are questionable about it, let us know) mandrake is pretty optimized out of the box(yes I know you can still squeak more out of it, but hdparm isn't necessarily the best way)

[bdg1983]

Keyser is correct as I've heard that Mandrake 8 configure hdparm out of the box.

As suggested, disable any services you do not use. That should help quite a bit.

[HypoLuxa]

Kewl..thanks for the help.
:D

[Bradley]

how can you view what services are running?

And what is the procedure for preventing them from starting when your OS loads?

[njcajun]

I believe 'netsysv' is on Mandrake 8 to help with service startup. You could also just go into /etc/rc.d/rcX.d (where X is the number of your runlevel), and change anything you don't need that starts with an 'S' to start with an 's'. For example, if you don't need sendmail, you'd do this:

'mv S88sendmail s88sendmail'

That'll cause Linux to ignore it on startup without erasing any links or files or anything, so if you need it again later you can just start it manually, or rename it back with a capital S if you want to run it all the time at boot time.