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How to best tune a Linux PC for development purposes?

cletus
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Spend money on RAM first, disk second, and CPU speed third. Use CVS or some other software version control system even if you're the only programmer. Back up frequently.

Actually, spend money on a good monitor and keyboard first.

Paul Tomblin
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  • +1 for the keyboard argument. Also don't forget the mouse or a very good touchpad - except, if you do absolutely everything by keyboard. Just measure how long it takes to aim at the close button of a window with a cheap touchpad! (Ah, I see that this was an *old* question, but somebody just answered it :-) – Chris Lercher Mar 21 '10 at 15:43
  • use as SSD and watch those kernel compiles fly! – The Unix Janitor Mar 21 '10 at 16:50
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cletus
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Use noatime on non-important-data

Ta Coen
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If your distribution doesn't do it already, consider to move /tmp to a ramdisk so temporary files would be created in RAM.

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http://studyhat.blogspot.com/2009/10/performance-and-tuning.html

or

http://studyhat.blogspot.com/2009/12/identifying-linux-bottlenecks.html

i feel 1st you need find out bottlenecks in server then you can use above links for tuning server!!!!!!!!

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