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How can I improve overall system performance?

I'm looking for some tricks to improve the performance of my laptop.

I'm using Compiz, which makes my Ubuntu really nice looking and got some awesome features … But … the startup of many programs is a little bit slow, opening my external harddisk takes 5 to 10 seconds …

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You can make some improvements by moving /tmp and /var/tmp to your RAM.

First, edit /etc/fstab and add following lines:

tmpfs /tmp     tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0
tmpfs /var/tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0

Next, remove all files from /tmp and /var/tmp and mount new RAM partitions:

sudo /etc/init.d/sysklogd stop
sudo rm -rf /tmp/*
sudo rm -rf /var/tmp/*
sudo mount -a
sudo /etc/init.d/sysklogd start

Also, you can move Firefox cache to RAM. Type about:config in Firefox address bar and hit Enter. Right click in the parameter listing and select New->String. Set the preference name to browser.cache.disk.parent_directory and set the value to /tmp. Restart Firefox.

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I suggest you take a look at How can I improve overall system performance? - these things are not going to be very different on a laptop.

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Try xubuntu or lubuntu for some more speed. Also try turning compiz up. Sorry but that really has to do with the preformance