Enhancing the performance of My RH system

[Rick Stevens]

othman El Moulat wrote:
> Hi guys;
> I'm using RH9 for two weeks ago and i want to fully profit from this
> wonderful environment...The most important issue about any operating
> system is truly speed (Speed is FUN !)...sometimes i notice that my
> system is slow and freezes at some occasions...what i need is an
> efficient memory management that could enhance the performance of my
> system...I'm wondering if there are some maintenance tools embedded into
> RH9 that could serve this aim? are there any softwares dedicated to
> Linux system memory enhancements? how can i clean up my system very
> often so that it runs efficiently and quickly?
> thanks for your help...

It should never "slow down and freeze".  If it is, there's several 
possibilities.  One is that you don't have enough memory or that you
are swapping a lot.  Another is that you have some task that runs
and sucks up a lot of the system resources.

The system will run "updatedb" once a day.  This flogs your hard drive
a lot while it runs and can make the system slow.  If you leave your
machine running all the time, the system will automatically run it at
about 4 a.m., so you shouldn't notice it.  If you shut down your machine
when you're done and restart it, updatedb will run about run 65 minutes
after you reboot.
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