You can do almost anything to improve performance
for a computer or specific application, and still have room
to get even more out of it. But after a while, the law of
diminishing returns starts kicking in, and you start working
too hard to get not much back. So use these tips and
methods, but remember that the reason you want to
improve your performance is not for its own sake. You
want to get some work done, too.
Nowhere else is the auto mechanic metaphor more appropriate
than among the folks who muck around at the
lowest levels of their systems. These are the folks who break
down specification lists and performance metrics and
consider it a challenge to get more out of them than they
were promised. This section is for these folks.
Before you undertake any of this type of work with Linux, keep a couple things in mind.
First, perform a benchmark on your system before you start tweaking it. Your openSUSE
DVD offers a pair of related command-line utilities for this task: bonnie and bonnie++.
Aside from the programming languages each was developed on, there are few differences
between the two utilities.
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