Tips To Improve Ubuntu Speed
Chances are that your Ubuntu desktop will run so smooth. You will wonder why you did not switch from those other slow loading desktop operating systems (looking at you Windows). Ubuntu runs smoothly on most modern machines and older machines using variants such as Lubuntu, Xubuntu and Ubuntu MATE are going to be impressive as well. Very few times, your experience can get poorer on your Ubuntu desktop. On the off chance that your Ubuntu PC is not running as smoothly as you would like, there are a few things you could do to improve your system performance and response.
But why is my computer running slow in the first place? Let me enumerate a few
- Computer is getting old
- You have too many application installed
- Something is broken in your system
- Many more…..
Now let us take a look at a few of this hacks.
1. Swappiness
If you have a system with a Swap partition, this is for you (NOTE: Swap partitions are not recommended for Solid State Drives as they reduce the lifespan of the drive). Swap partitions aid systems especially ones with low RAM installed to manage your system memory. Writing data to Swap (hard disk) is slower compared to RAM, so you can reduce the swappiness value to limit how often data is written to your Swap partition. By default, Ubuntu’s swappiness is set to 60 percent so you can reduce to say 10 percent with the following command.
sudo bash -c “echo ‘vm.swappiness = 10’ >> /etc/sysctl.conf”