partitioning puppy for max speed?

Question

hey i have 2 old computers, each with less than 1 gig of ram.. i switched them from xp to puppy, and saw a nice speed boost (i can actually open things in less than 10 minutes) anyhow its still quite sluggish, and i think its the partitioning.

for example i'll use the PC i'm on now

originally 15gig harddrive

i originally partitioned with a huge swap file(looked like so)

not sure exactly but this is close.

sda1 -ext4 file system -6gigs
sda2 -ext4 Boot -500 megs
sda3 -linux swap 7gigs

but after reading it said it was more efficient to swap in smaller partitions spread out between your drives

i added a new master, and switched old to slave

Sda1 Swap 128 megs
sda2 ext4-File system 26gigs
sda3 swap 128 megs
sda4 boot 500megs

sdb1 swap 128 megs
sdb2 ext4-storage-13 gigs
sdb3 swap 128 megs
sdb4 swap 128 megs

but here i seen a decrease in speed


I'm still new to partitioning, so what am i doing wrong, should i add more partitions, or what? use extended? any help would be appreciated, any tips for speeding up puppy are welcome too.

Answer 1

You only need 1 swap partition on your entire system for linux. Puppy can use the swap if it is on any hard drive. It should b listed in /etc/fstab as the swap partition. Generally the amount of swap should be about 1.5 to 2 times the amount of your ram.

This link has a lot of info about swap.

I am not sure how much this will speed up your system.

THe other links might help speed up your system. You can find a lot more suggestions by googling for "speed up linux/firefox/whatever app you want"

Good luck

P.S. Can you combine the ram form the 2 system and use it on one system. Double the ram would help.

Answer 2

@ BRAD JUNEBUG - Puppy is a Linux distribution. If you don't know, why waste the OP's time by answering?



@ Tim M - It's Puppy LINUX, Not Puppy Linux FOR WINDOWS? That doesn't even make sense. The OP put down WAY more info than most people do. Like I already said to the other poster, If you don't understand what your looking at, why waste the OP's time by answering?



To the OP, check your other post, I answered over there. Hope it helps!

Answer 3

Are you talking about Puppy Linux for Windows? Adding more detail(s) would be helpful. Thanks

Answer 4

Let me answer your question, with a question. What the **** is puppy?