Nine tricks to accelerate the running of Ubuntu Linux on the old machine

Whether your Ubuntu 13.10 system is reinstalled or upgraded from an earlier version, you may feel the system is slowing down after a while. In this article, we will learn some tips to make your Ubuntu run faster.

Before improving the overall system performance of Ubuntu 13.10, consider why the system slows down over time. There may be many reasons. For example, you may have a low-configuration computer with simple settings. You may have installed many applications that eat system resources at startup. There are actually various reasons.

Some tips are listed here to help you increase the speed of Ubuntu. There are also some good skills that can be used to improve the system performance and make the system run more smoothly. You can choose to try all the skills or part of them, each of which can make your Ubuntu smoother, more agile, and faster.

Tips for making Ubuntu 13.10 run faster:

I have already applied these skills on my Ubuntu 13.10, but I believe they can also be applied to older versions of Ubuntu, or other Ubuntu-based Linux distributions, such: linux Mint and Elementary OS Luna.

Reduce the default boot wait time of grub:

By default, grub will give you 10 seconds to select the system to boot or enter the recovery mode, which is too long for me. This means you have to stay on the computer side and press the OK key to guide Ubuntu immediately. Is it a waste of time? The first trick is to change the boot wait time. If you prefer the GUI tool, read this article and adjust the Grub wait time and boot sequence through grub mimizer.

For others, you only need to use the following simple command to open the grub configuration file:

1. Sudo gedit/etc/default/grub &

Change GRUB_TIMEOUT = 10 to GRUB_TIMEOUT = 2, so that the boot wait time can be changed to 2 seconds. It is best not to change it to 0, because you cannot select another operating system or recovery mode. After the modification is complete, run the following command to make the modification take effect:

1. Sudo update-grub

Manage startup applications:

You can install various applications. If you are an It's FOSS reader, you may have installed many of the applications recommended in this week's best application series. In this case, many applications are started upon startup, and the program running must consume system resources. The result is that a system starts slowly every time it is started. Open Unity Dash and find the application to start:

Check the boot programs and consider the programs that you think do not need to be started every time you start the system. Then, remove them as much as possible.

What if you don't want to remove the program from the boot list? For example, if you have installed the recommended programs in the best prompt plug-in Ubuntu 13.10, you want them to be automatically started at every boot. In this case, you can set a wait time for the application to start. In this way, you can reduce the resource usage during startup, and your application will still start automatically, not after a period of time. In the previous figure, click Edit and add a wait to the running command. For example, if you want to wait 20 seconds and then start the Dropbox prompt, you only need to add a command before the current command:

1. Sleep 20;

In this way, the command 'dropbox start-I 'is changed to 'sleep 20; dropbox start-I '. This means that the startup of Dropbox will be delayed for 20 seconds. You can set a wait time for other boot applications like this.

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