Ubuntu's performance : how to speed up ?

[Vincent Trouilliez]

> In the U.S. the reliability of the power system is normally very good,
> but during storms, anything can happen. It depends somewhat on location.

Ah yes, forgot tempermental weather could be over there, doesn't
help :-/

> The price of a UPS has dropped a bit.  I bought two of them recently 
> (1000 VA) for $100 each.

Wow, that's cheap ! Only 100 bucks for 1000VA ???  I measured that my
computer draws only 100VA when the CRT monito is turned off. So assuming
the UPS can extract every bit of power from the battery, then it could
keep the central unit running for 10 hours ! Let's be realistic, say 5
hours, that's still plenty enough time for the power cut to be fixed, in
99.9999% of cases, especially as I live in town.
Hmmm, might think og getting one then....

> I currently have two systems running Linux (with these UPSs).  One of
> them is not running X most of the time and is quite stable (it has been
> running constantly since I put it on a UPS about 4 months ago).  On this
> computer, I reboot whenever X hangs, although I can usually ssh into it
> from the other one and kill X. 

I keep reading this "ssh into it to kill X". Sounds great, motivates me
further to build a second Linux box and experiment networking stuff...


Vince