Speeding up my weakish Linux box?

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13 Mar 2012, 8:21 am

Hey!
I have this awesome Linux box that I really want to use.
I havent used it in 3 months properly. I miss it. The trouble is, it is very slow.
Here are its specs:
1GB DDr 2 Ram (Thats probably the culprit)
1.6 x2 Atom
Nvidia ION
40GB 7200 RPM HDD

Any tips on speeding it up?

Thanks!

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13 Mar 2012, 8:27 am

Are you using this thing as a desktop box, or server?

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13 Mar 2012, 8:30 am

Daneeka wrote:

Are you using this thing as a desktop box, or server?

Sorta both.
I use it for hosting my web development projects locally. But its not enough for it to be called a sever.
Its more of a desktop box.

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13 Mar 2012, 8:35 am

Which distro are you using on it? More RAM could help if you're hosting apache and a desktop enviroment on it. Can't really expect much out of an Atom, though.

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13 Mar 2012, 8:49 am

Daneeka wrote:

Which distro are you using on it? More RAM could help if you're hosting apache and a desktop enviroment on it. Can't really expect much out of an Atom, though.

It was fine, but I have done a little too much on it I think.
It runs Kubuntu.
I will upgrade the ram, but I am saving for a business venture.

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13 Mar 2012, 8:59 am

1GB stick of DDR2 is $13 on Newegg. You could also try a lighter enviroment, like Fluxbox, or similar.

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13 Mar 2012, 9:00 am

Daneeka wrote:

1GB stick of DDR2 is $13 on Newegg. You could also try a lighter enviroment, like Fluxbox, or similar.

But I much prefer KDE.
This machine is a mini ITX and it only has 1 ram slot sadly. If I do a fresh install, it works fine.
Maybe I should remove some packages that aren't needed.

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13 Mar 2012, 9:04 am

That's a start. Use Top to find out what's eating what and see if there are any optimizing you can do in your configs.

Strange your board only has one slot, most I've seen come with two.

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13 Mar 2012, 9:07 am

Daneeka wrote:

That's a start. Use Top to find out what's eating what and see if there are any optimizing you can do in your configs.

Strange your board only has one slot, most I've seen come with two.

Yeah it is kind of strange.
Right, I shall get to it.
Thanks!

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13 Mar 2012, 9:35 am

Madbones wrote:

Daneeka wrote:

1GB stick of DDR2 is $13 on Newegg. You could also try a lighter enviroment, like Fluxbox, or similar.

But I much prefer KDE.
This machine is a mini ITX and it only has 1 ram slot sadly. If I do a fresh install, it works fine.
Maybe I should remove some packages that aren't needed.

You can trim down KDE to use less resources. Turn off the Plasma Desktop and all compositing functions in the KDE Control center. You will get the basic KDE Desktop which when you login and get the full DE loaded, your system will be be consuming about 200-250 MB resources. --Use the Plasma Desktop, transparencies, and all of the other crap that KDE loads by default, your resource consumption will be much higher.

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