Comments on: 12 Easy Steps to Speed Up Ubuntu Linux

By: talgam

talgam — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 02:18:37 +0000

I know this post is old, but when installing preload, it’s not running native. I installed it on a Raspberry PI and two other systems. To make preload work, you need to:

1. service preload start
2. systemctl enable preload

Then reboot.

By: ROMSAT

ROMSAT — Sun, 09 Sep 2018 22:38:10 +0000

The recommendation I make is:
13. Reduce the use of virtual memory “Swap”
The Swap memory is much slower than the installed RAM.
Through the kernel’s feature “swappiness” we can indicate that it uses the Swap memory only when the RAM memory is practically full, for example 90%. (The swappiness can have a value between 0 and 100, normally in all distributions it comes with a default value of 60)
If we want to know the value of our system, we just have to do:
$ cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
And we can do a test, doing:
$ sudo sysctl -w vm.swappiness=10
And if we want the change to be final, you only have to edit the corresponding configuration file:
sudo gedit /etc/sysctl.conf
And in his last line add the following:
vm.swappiness=10

By: RandomScuff

RandomScuff — Wed, 29 Aug 2018 13:40:58 +0000

Awesome article, some good stuff… If you don’t mind, what Desktop Env are you using on your Ubuntu if you run Ubuntu.

By: Divine

Divine — Mon, 27 Aug 2018 09:24:19 +0000

In reply to jawnhenry.

I haven’t written any articles on systemd yet but I did sight it as the reason behind the development of many other projects like Devuan in my Devuan vs. Debian article.

Systemd isn’t the subject of discussion here, speeding Ubuntu up is.
With that being said, you can take a jive at writing about systemd and sending to us if you wish to. I’ll be happy to read your review since you seem to be well informed on the matter.

By: Владислав Одобеску

Владислав Одобеску — Sun, 26 Aug 2018 05:55:36 +0000

Best way to speed up ubunt is to delete Ubuntu and install archlinux. After that if you have any problem in your life – search arch forum. (Actually had no problems at all with boot time since I moved to pure archlinux). It boots in about 3-4 seconds or so ( Samsung sata3 ssd )

By: jawnhenry

jawnhenry — Sat, 25 Aug 2018 23:10:39 +0000

Boot time of Ubuntu, or any other distribution, was not a problem at all until ‘systemd’ was adopted; then boot times went into the toilet. Boot times never were even DISCUSSED, because they were never noticed; hence they were not thought about.
Before Ubuntu adopted ‘systemd’, this article would never have been written–it would have been unnecessary, and if it HAD been written, readers would have questioned the motivations–and possibly the credibility–of the author.

Why are no articles written which address the root cause of the problem?