Speeding up Ubuntu linux by tweeking SWAP memory

I have a desktop with 1GB RAM and Ubuntu 10.10 OS with 4GB of SWAP memory configured and still it felt slow. I'm fine using it for general browsing and reading but not happy to use this desktop for any development

Yesterday I was trying the new Linix Mint 10 Debian Edition (LMDE) with a live CD in this desktop. When looking at the configuration in GParted, I understood that all the 4GB SWAP memory is allocated in one partition. So I though lets break this into two and see what happens.

To my surprise, when I restarted the machine using installed Ubuntu OS, I found my machine got lot faster with the same RAM same amount of SWAP.

So I realized deviding the SWAP memory into multiple parts, each part is with minimum size of the RAM the machine has makes the machine faster.

I'm yet to read upon more on this on how exactly it works, but this is a quick tip we can follow to speedup Ubuntu or any other linux distro.

 

Drivel for Ubuntu

Finally there is a decent blog client for Ubuntu, it's Drivel.

I tried Drivel before but unfortunately it never logged in after install. But today it logged in into my Blogger account magically.

Now on, I'll try and post as many blogs as possible to interesting things I come across. I also need to find out how to attach labels to blog in Drivel.

Using rhythmbox-client

I'd like to listen to music when I'm working, when learning, when relaxing and almost all the time.

The problem is I have all my music collection in my desktop and I work from laptop. And to change music, radio stations, I need to go to desktop.

There is a simple solution for this problem I found today.

I use Ubuntu in my desktop and Rhythmbox to play music. There is a small command line utility rhythmbox-client. So I connect to my desktop with ssh and use rhythmbox-client command to control music being played in my desktop.

Here are few sample commands I tried to far:

rhythmbox-client --play-uri=http://38.101.195.5:8132/listen.pls (TORI Radio Channel)

rhythmbox-client --print-playing

rhythmbox-client --next

rhythmbox-client --volume-down

rhythmbox-client --volume-up

Hope to find some more small tools like this to make my life easy.

Oh, BTW, I forgot to tell you I stopped connecting external mouse to my laptop to force myself use keyboard more. :)

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