HOWTO: Speeding up Debian

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Hevoos · #46 Post by **Hevoos** » 2007-05-02 19:39

When I ran sysvconfig I noticed that I have three daemons running that seems to do the same thing, these are:
cron
atd
and anacron

Do I really need all three of them, or can I just remove atd and anacron?

Lou · #47 Post by **Lou** » 2007-05-02 21:33

This is up to you, do

$ apt-cache show

for cron, anacron and at

and draw your own conclusions, i opted for letting them run.

Bulkley · #48 Post by **Bulkley** » 2007-05-05 16:19

Question: do I need ppp and pppconfig? I haven't used a dial-up modem since I switched to adsl which used pppoe. Or, are they mixed somehow?

Lou · #49 Post by **Lou** » 2007-05-05 16:47

I don't really know, i didn't touch them just to play it safe. Maybe somebody else will enlighten us

mzilikazi · #50 Post by **mzilikazi** » 2007-05-05 18:39

Bulkley wrote:Question: do I need ppp and pppconfig? I haven't used a dial-up modem since I switched to adsl which used pppoe. Or, are they mixed somehow?

They are optional packages.

Bulkley · #51 Post by **Bulkley** » 2007-05-05 22:46

mzilikazi wrote:

They are optional packages.[/quote]

Unfortunately, when I went to remove ppp, it wanted to remove pppoe.

mzilikazi · #52 Post by **mzilikazi** » 2007-05-06 03:53

Doh! Somehow I completely missed that you were now using adsl.
Here's what I probably should have told you:

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apt-cache depends pppoe
pppoe
  Depends: libc6
  Depends: ppp

Pobega · #53 Post by **Pobega** » 2007-05-06 11:27

I have a question: I heard somewhere that if you apt-get -b source xorg <yourwm> that it will be faster and more responsive. Is this true, or is it bologna?

Lou · #54 Post by **Lou** » 2007-05-06 12:39

Never heard of it, let us know

Pobega · #55 Post by **Pobega** » 2007-05-06 13:55

I guess I'll give it a shot when I get my laptop back, I sent it into System76 for repairs. Hopefully I'll have it back by the end of the week.

lucho115 · #56 Post by **lucho115** » 2007-05-08 19:39

i use sysvconfig , rcconf and sysv-rc-conf but i cant remove from the init the avahi and hal daemons, where i have to look to disable to load at boot time, anybod knows?
thks

CooSee · #57 Post by **CooSee** » 2007-05-08 19:48

lucho115 wrote:i use sysvconfig , rcconf and sysv-rc-conf but i cant remove from the init the avahi and hal daemons, where i have to look to disable to load at boot time, anybod knows?
thks

hallo,

/etc/default/avahi-daemon

CooSee ' Ya

chrismortimore · #58 Post by **chrismortimore** » 2007-05-08 20:15

Hevoos wrote:When I ran sysvconfig I noticed that I have three daemons running that seems to do the same thing, these are:
cron
atd
and anacron

Do I really need all three of them, or can I just remove atd and anacron?

They do different things:

cron - a usual cron simply executes a command at regular intervals, and does little thinking about it.
at - lets you execute a command at a particular time, or add it to a queue of commands and stuff.
anacron - makes sure that the things in cron actually get ran. cron assumes that the computer is on 24/7, so if something is set to run at 03:00 every morning and your computer isn't on, it'll never run. Each time anacron is ran, it checks when the jobs were last ran, and then runs anything that should be done.

chrismortimore · #59 Post by **chrismortimore** » 2007-05-08 20:18

Pobega wrote:I have a question: I heard somewhere that if you apt-get -b source xorg <yourwm> that it will be faster and more responsive. Is this true, or is it bologna?

If you set hardware specific compiling options so it's optimised for your machine, it'll be quicker. But trust me on this, it is almost certainly not worth the time and hassle.

Kateikyoushi · #60 Post by **Kateikyoushi** » 2007-05-08 21:13

I second that, considering the compilation time especially in this case, it does not worth the small speed boost.

lucho115 · #61 Post by **lucho115** » 2007-05-09 19:48

CooSee wrote:
lucho115 wrote:i use sysvconfig , rcconf and sysv-rc-conf but i cant remove from the init the avahi and hal daemons, where i have to look to disable to load at boot time, anybod knows?
thks
hallo,

/etc/default/avahi-daemon

CooSee ' Ya

I use this file yet, i config like this:

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AVAHI_DAEMON_START=0

but it still start at boot time.

With hal i use in /etc/default/hal this code

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 DAEMON_OPTS=NO

but it still start at boot time.

Any other tip??

CooSee · #62 Post by **CooSee** » 2007-05-09 20:33

hallo,

apt-get install rcconf

rcconf

CooSee ' Ya

hellfire[bg] · #63 Post by **hellfire[bg]** » 2007-05-10 05:59

How can i restore locales deleted by locale purge?

chrismortimore · #64 Post by **chrismortimore** » 2007-05-10 06:52

hellfire[bg] wrote:How can i restore locales deleted by locale purge?

Set the locales you want in /etc/locale.gen, and then run locale-gen, that should do it.

lucho115 · #65 Post by **lucho115** » 2007-05-10 14:42

CooSee wrote:hallo,

apt-get install rcconf

rcconf

CooSee ' Ya

OK, thanks but if you look my first post i said " i use sysvconfig , rcconf and sysv-rc-conf but i cant remove ...."
I remove avahi and hal at rc levels and at rcS, but still up with the system boot.
Any other tip??