27/08/2005
Xorg and fluxbox speedup with gentoo
I’ve lately noticed that my fluxbox was a bit slow…when opening up terminals, when opening up firefox, or even when entering the wm.
I did some changes and the problem has been significantly reduced:
1) edit /etc/hosts and make sure there are lines like these:
127.0.0.1 localhost
1.2.3.4 koko.lala koko
2) re-emerge fluxbox with disablexmb flag:
#echo "x11-wm/fluxbox disablexmb" >> /etc/portage/package.use
#emerge -Dv fluxbox
3) check your font paths inside xorg.conf for any incosistencies and symlink loops
4) if you have a system with a lot of ram change vm.swappiness. I use:
vm.swappiness=40
inside my /etc/sysctl.conf
5) I’ve also done this to fine tune my memmory settings, if you feel brave enough..you can do that too:
echo 4096 >> /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes
my system now boots faster and I whichever application I use has a noticeable speed difference.
Have fun with gentoo!
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