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Originally Posted by DawnFalcon
Mm you could put in a quicker HDD no? A more "modern" 2.5" (say a 80-100GB) which had a decent sized drive cache would probably do wonders for the speed.
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I've no doubt it would. So would installing another 256MB of RAM, which would make it possible to actually
run WinXP with something approximating performance. (Fujitsu said back then it maxed out at 384MB RAM, but there has subsequently been a 256MB upgrade module released for it, so maybe.)
But both would cost
money. Anything I can do in software and clever configuration is fine. Anything that costs money won't happen. I'm doing this as much to see what performance I can wring out of limited hardware as anything else. (There are folks on the Puppy forums running it on P200s with 64MB RAM for limited uses, so my hardware isn't the lowest end.)
The shift to an ext4 file system appears to have provided about a 1/3 boost in drive I/O performance and faster loading for large apps, so I'm pretty pleased. I'm about to redo the Xubuntu partition as ext4, to provide some Glucosamine for its arthritic joints.
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Dennis