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Getting the most out of your Linux desktop can be easy if you have a great new machine loaded with oodles of RAM. But, if you have older hardware, perhaps limited in memory, and you still want to heavily use the system with as much responsivenes as possible, then you are obviously interested in tuning the performance. Even with 2GB of RAM, running on a relatively good piece of hardware, you may want to investigate ways to get more performance out of your system so that it's as fast as you are. :-)
watch -n 1 --differences free -m
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) points to [https://fasterdata.es.net/host-tuning/background/ this article on host tuning] as reference (; which is very lame in my opinion. Amazon should have a whole wiki dedicated to host tuning!)
== Tools ==
What tools should be used to measure performance and tune system variables?
https://k6.io/ K6 is a performance testing tool, but their install instructions don't work for RedHat, so we'll skip it for now.
[https://www.joedog.org/siege-home/ siege] (and [https://github.com/JoeDog/siege here]) is an old standby, which installs effortlessly, so we'll give that a try
== See Also ==
To help optimize your web server, see the [[PHP Accelerator]] article
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