Making Archlinux’s pacman go faster
After a while pacman-operations on my computer started getting really slow. To optimize the database and make pacman go quick again, there’s the aptly named “pacman-optimize” which will try to put all the small files in one physical place on your harddrive. For me on ext3 it made a world of difference.
Also, to remove old [...]
Strange kernel panics
I don’t remember when it started, but every now and then when I got back at the computer after leaving it on for several hours, the keyboard-leds would blink and the computer would not respond to anything – in other words a kernel panic. The problem was nothing got written to any logfiles, so debugging [...]