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Ubuntu Linux Unleashed 2021 Edition, 14th Edition
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Ubuntu Linux Unleashed 2021 Edition, 14th Edition

by Matthew Helmke
August 2020
Beginner
752 pages
25h 9m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 21

Performance Tuning

Squeezing extra performance out of your hardware might sound like a pointless task, given the low price of commodity upgrades today. To a certain degree, that is true; for most of us, it is cheaper to buy a new computer than to spend hours fighting to get a 5 percent speed boost. But what if the speed boost were 20 percent? How about if it were 50 percent?

The amount of benefit you can get by optimizing your system varies depending on what kinds of tasks you are running, but there is something for everyone. Over the next few pages we look at quick ways to optimize the Apache web server, both the KDE and GNOME desktop systems, both MySQL and PostgreSQL ...

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