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Donpine: /* Prelink Binaries */

2013-02-23T21:31:06Z

‎Prelink Binaries

2012-12-23T02:31:55Z

remove extra space

2012-12-23T02:22:02Z

‎Chrome Tweaks

2012-12-23T02:20:45Z

2012-12-23T02:11:22Z

add new section for chrome

2012-12-22T23:06:31Z

‎Maximize Bandwidth

2012-12-22T23:05:03Z

‎Maximize Bandwidth

2012-12-22T23:04:31Z

‎Xorg Options

2012-12-22T23:02:34Z

‎Tune Hard Drive Performance

2012-12-22T23:02:20Z

‎Tune Hard Drive Performance

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 Because Sabayon is a binary distribution, linking optimization is done after compile. For this tweak to work, your CXXFLAGS in make.conf must not contain -fvisibility-inlines-hidden. This flag makes gcc avoid exporting unneeded symbols from libraries, making them smaller.
-    emerge prelink
+Install prelink
 Run the command to generate prelink configuration file

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	rc-update add irqbalance default		rc-update add irqbalance default
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	== Chrome Tweaks ==		== Chrome Tweaks ==

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 == Chrome Tweaks ==
-There are two steps to running Chrome completely in memory. To move the profile to memory, install profile-sync-daemon https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Profile-sync-daemon:
+There are two steps to running Chrome completely in memory. To move the browser profile to memory, install profile-sync-daemon:
     emerge www-misc/profile-sync-daemon
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 #Enable auto-login
 #HTTP Pipelining

← Older revision		Revision as of 02:20, 23 December 2012
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	see also http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=4		see also http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=4
		+
		+	== Disable Swap ==
		+
		+	Apply this tweak to systems with >2GB memory to reduce hard drive access. Append the following lines to turn off swap until memory runs out and to wait longer before writing dirty pages to disk:
		+
		+	file: /etc/sysctl.conf
		+	vm.swappiness = 0
		+	vm.dirty_background_ratio = 50
		+	vm.dirty_ratio = 80
		+
		+	see http://docs.neo4j.org/chunked/stable/linux-performance-guide.html

	== Prelink Binaries ==		== Prelink Binaries ==

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 #lvm - logical volume management, which you may have used during install if you let the #installer automatically partition
 #nfsmount - mounts network file systems
-#sabayon-mce - media center service, associated with XBMC
+#sabayon-mce - media center service, associated with XBMC (not included with CoreCD)
-#netmount - included with Gentoo to network-boot from an installation CD
 see also http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=4
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     vim /etc/conf.d/prelink
-Enable the daily cron job.
+Enable the daily cron task.
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     rc-update add irqbalance default

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    sed -i 's/\(net\.core\.hot_list_length\ =\ 256\)/\#\1/' ~/sysctl.conf
    cat < ~/sysctl.conf >> /etc/sysctl.conf
 Run the following command to reload the config file:

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 == Maximize Bandwidth ==
-   wget -c http://web.archive.org/web/20090107044922/http://www.rubyringtechnologies.com/files/sysctl.conf.txt -O ~/sysctl.conf
+  wget -c http://web.archive.org/web/20090107044922/http://www.rubyringtechnologies.com/files/sysctl.conf.txt -O ~/sysctl.conf
-   sed -i 's/\(net\.core\.hot_list_length\ =\ 256\)/\#\1/' ~/sysctl.conf
+  sed -i 's/\(net\.core\.hot_list_length\ =\ 256\)/\#\1/' ~/sysctl.conf
-   cat < ~/sysctl.conf >> /etc/sysctl.conf
+  cat < ~/sysctl.conf >> /etc/sysctl.conf
-   sysctl -p
+  sysctl -p
 Run the following command to reload the config file:
-   /sbin/sysctl -p
+  /sbin/sysctl -p
 == Multicore Interrupt Balancing ==

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        Identifier "idevname"
        Driver "kbd"
-       Option "AutoRepeat" "250 0"
+       Option "AutoRepeat" "250 10"
     EndSection
-The default key repeat time 500 milliseconds, and the default key response time is 30 milliseconds. This sets them to 530 and 0, respectively. You can replace "idevname" with your name for your keyboard.
+The default key repeat time 500 milliseconds, and the default key response time is 30 milliseconds. This sets them to 100 and 250, respectively. You can replace "idevname" with your name for your keyboard.

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 The hard drive is the slowest compenent of your computer. A little tuning goes a long way for performance.
-   vim /etc/conf.d/hdparm
+  vim /etc/conf.d/hdparm
 Add the following at the bottom
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 Start hdparm during boot
-   rc-update add hdparm boot
+  rc-update add hdparm boot
 == Preload Programs ==

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 Add the following at the bottom
 hda_args="-a16 -c1 -k1 -u1 -S0"
-cdrom0_args="-c1 -k1 -u1"
+  hda_args="-a16 -c1 -k1 -u1 -S0"
 Start hdparm during boot