Help - slow performance on a Toshiba laptop

[hank]

what settings would you recommend I tweek?
thanks
hank
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Hallenbeck" <chuckh at sent.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2004 2:20 AM
Subject: Re: Help - slow performance on a Toshiba laptop


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> Hi Hank,
>
> Your Slackware 9.1 installation should run okay right out of the
> box, but to get max performance you may need to tweak things here
> and there, and possibly change some kernel settings as I did. But
> you can work your way up to max speed as you get accustomed to
> the new environment. I have been using this crippled system
> relatively happily for quite a while before I found the magic key
> to faster disk I/O yesterday. Your HD will not run any slower
> than mine did until yesterday.
>
> Chuck
>
>
> On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, hank wrote:
>
> > I am going to be putting slackware 9.1 on a amd 233 mhz 13 gig drive
with 64
> > megs ram once I get the 13 gig hd put in. should I have to change
anything
> > to get this thing up and running at max speed fore this slow of a
machine?
> > I am currently on my windows box but plan on having this second machine
as
> > my linux box
> > thanks
> > hank
>
>
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