[mythtv-users] Removing Parts of Myth

Andy Long andymyth at gmail.com
Wed Mar 2 00:19:45 UTC 2005


On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 16:06:53 -0500, Thom Paine <painethom at gmail.com> wrote:
> > If you want to speed your machine up a bit without reinstalling your
> > OS, the top few suggestions I would make are:
> >
> > 1) If you have a software-only TV card, get a PVR-X50
> 
> I have a 350 and a 250. 350 is doing the TVOut.
> 
> > 2) If you don't have a decent graphics card, spend $70 and get a GeForce FX5200
> 
> > 3) Disable GNOME/KDE and use a lightweight windowmanager like fluxbox,
> > fvwm, etc.
> 
> I'd like to explore this option. I'm currently using gnome, but had
> heard that fluxbox was faster for something like this. I'll look into
> it more.
> 


For me in FC3, gnome is VERY slow (i'm running w/ an Athlon 2800 and
1GB of RAM).   Even just clicking on icons too for ever.  Swtiching to
KDE gave me a substantial boost.


> > 4) Disable any non-essential services in your startup scripts
> 
> Already tweaked.
> 
> > 5) Close any ports that don't need to be open in your inetd.conf/xinetd.conf
> 
> None open except ssh.
> 
> > 6) Check system stats with 'cat /proc/meminfo', sar, iostat, vmstat -
> > react accordingly. If you're RAM limited, add ram. If you're spending
> > lots of system time waiting for your disk, get a faster disk and/or
> > balance disk I/O across multiple spindles
> 
> Ram is good. at 1G. Hard drives are ata 133 with the 133 cable on them.
> 
> > 7) ensure that your IDE drives are using dma (google for dma linux hdparm)
> 
> HDparm has been tweaked as well.
> 
> > 8) use a simple theme in MythTV and disable cpu-intensive options like
> > transparency and other OSD options.
> 
> Running GANT and I put al the options on CPU low that I could find.
> 
> Thanks.
> --
> -=/>Thom
> 
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