I've only had FC3 running on my Dell Inspiron 4000 laptop for about a week. I'm stuck getting information on how to /tweak/configure the files in proc/sys/vm/. I'm not happy with the way pdflush renders my system unusable for minutes at a time, or how much RAM memory is normally used up with only a couple of apps open. System specs: Celeron 600 MHz 256 MB RAM ATi Rage Mobility 8 MB VRAM 20 GB HD Swappable internal FD/CD-RW Internal 56K PCMCIA-2 slots My research so far on the Web shows references to /usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt, but this doesn't exist in my environment. I suspect because I don't have the kernel source installed. I have none of the kernel documents I should have. Can someone point me to an on-line source for how to configure these files, or give me some pointers/settings that have turned out better for a low- processing-power desktop or laptop? I'm just not finding much on my own. At the moment I have the readahead and readahead_early services not running in the hope this will give me some more room to work in before I have to cringe while waiting for my dirty laundry...er...dirty pages...to be written to disk. :0) TIA, Paul ...an otherwise happy Fedora user
