Yak Shaving

Reading about the internet I came across http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/speed-linux-no-kernel-patch-required. This looks pretty cool.

I thought I’d give a go as my EEE PC 1005 has been suffering a little since upgrading to Ubuntu Maverick. Following http://www.webupd8.org/2010/11/alternative-to-200-lines-kernel-patch.html the Ubuntu guide I have given it a whirl.

Can’t say I have noticed a difference as yet but these things can be subjective. I will add an update when I notice something.

Update 1:
So I got this tweet: http://twitter.com/#!/1stvamp/status/6385998627864576

I haven’t tested this package but it looks like an easier way to implement the changes.

As for performance improvements I’m not entirely convinced. It has dropped the load when running Chrome. Usually Chrome ran the laptop at a load of 1 ish that has now dropped to around .5. Which is nice for battery life.

Had a hard job getting this to work. But as usual the solution is quite simple:

1. Download and unzip http://google-web-toolkit.googlecode.com/svn/tools/redist/mozilla/mozilla-1.7.13.tar.gz
2. Add $INSTALLED_MOZILLA (e.g. /code/mozilla-1.7.13) to mozilla-hosted-browser.conf in the GWT
3. Add $INSTALLED_MOZILLA (e.g. /code/mozilla-1.7.13) to /etc/ld.so.conf.d/libc.conf (can be any file in that dir ending in conf)
4. run ldconfig
5. Start your app and have fun!

If you see gwt-linux-1.5.2/libgwt-ll.so: undefined symbol: JS_PropertyStub then your mozilla-hosted-browser.conf needs to be set to the downloaded mozilla from set 1. Looks like the newer Firefox and Seamonkey dont have this symbol.