If you are a tech savvy or just a linux fan you might come cross many post describing how to speed up your system using some 200 lines of codes, which might get a bit messy if you don’t do it properly. So I found a simple workaround to use this script which I will discuss below.
Before that I want assure you that this patch (kernel script) really improves the speed and performance, but I take no responsibility if it doesn’t work for you. Anyways Linus Torvald, linux kernel developer wrote this in one of his mails after trying this script-
…..It’s an improvement for things like smooth scrolling around, but what I found more interesting was how it seems to really make web pages load a lot faster. Maybe it shouldn’t have been surprising, but I always associated that with network performance. But there’s clearly enough of a CPU load when loading a new web page that if you have a load average of 50+ at the same time, you will be starved for CPU in the loading process, and probably won’t get all the http requests out quickly enough.
So I think this is firmly one of those “real improvement” patches. Good job. Group scheduling goes from “useful for some specific server loads” to “that’s a killer feature“.
– Linus
So lets get back to the script, Webup8 had compiled the orginal 200 lines of codes to a simple script.
How to use it in Ubuntu?
Open your terminal type / paste the following commands:
cd wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/59511828/cgroup_patch chmod +x cgroup_patch sudo ./cgroup_patch
Then you can either restart your system or simply run:
sudo /etc/rc.local
I have tried it in ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10, now my 1080p videos play smoothly and I feel less hangs. Hope it improves your syatem likewise.
Please give me your feedbacks.
