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Maki

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From: Skopje, Macedonia

Registered: 2007-10-16

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Slownes due to old install

My arch install is around a year old, updated reguraly, and i have a a lot of stuff in my / partition, around 14 GB, mostly games that i never play. I have optimized every partition with the ext3 fs tips, directory listing and full journaling. I'm running kdemod 4.2 and a set of lightweight daemons. acpid   " crond  hal      kdm  named     rsyslogd  sshd avahi-daemon  dbus   ifplugd  mpd  openntpd  sensors " . With web browsing this setup takes around 250 ram.
However. starting up apps is a lot slower on my archlinux than when i do a fresh install. I gues part of the reason is that the drive is IDE, and when i starting an heavy app like firefox, i loudly hear the hard drive trying to find the sectors where the app is scatered. Fragmentation on the root partition is around 7%. Is there any way to speed up or should i try to switch to ext4 with its online deframentation?

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pyther

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Registered: 2008-01-21

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Re: Slownes due to old install

First of you can start by removing some of the games you do not play.

Secondly you can tar up your root partition, format it, and untar it.

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Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

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Re: Slownes due to old install

IIRC, fsck optimizes directories in ext3... Maybe you should try running a fsck from a live CD.