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CPU scaling governors and you
What is your CPU being governed by? Should it be governed by it? Why? How? Here’s an outlook on the various CPU frequency governors, namely conservative, ondemand, powersave, userspace, and performance, that steps up and steps down the CPU: conservative … Continue reading
Posted in Linux, gentoo | sabayon | fedora, miscellaneous
Tagged conservative, cpu frequency, cpu scaling, frequency governors, ondemand, performance, powersave, userspace
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noatime System Boost
Is your system slow? Do you have to wait 6.2 seconds to start Firefox and other heavy applications?
Well, what you need is the “noatime” filesystem mount option! What exactly happens when system files are read? They are written too! The system writes access times to the files causing unnecessary IO traffic between you and your HDD.
To avoid this, you can mount all your partitions with the noatime option. Simply Continue reading