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Some of you may remember my earlier work.

I have now packaged up a few, relativity safe, tweaks as a nice self contained .deb file. This will add a sysctl.conf to the system, tweak the ondemand governor, and drop a load of banned hosts into your system.

IF YOU HAVE ALREADY TWEAKED DNSMASQ, SYSCTL, OR THE SPEED GOVERNOR I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THIS WILL DO IT IT.

The good news is that removing this package and rebooting should be 100% safe and *should* revert all changes. I have tested this under dpkg and App Manager under Diablo and I'm almost 100% positive this should work under Chinook and I'm not sure about Bora.

This is the contents of the deb. The /root/hosts.sh regenerates the list of blocked hosts, the dnsmasq.conf is sed'ed to enable a conf-dir in which this drops the banner blocking conf, the two new init.d scripts control sysctl and the ondemand tweaks.

All in all this should provide a small to moderate increase in performance. I am using it with an 8mb swap file.

It's a good first step to get some feedback and I now know where I'm going to take this. I do plan on adding prefs.js tweaking to this eventually and possibly chrome and gconf tuning as well.

My ultimate goal it to have 100% of my tweaks bundled up in an easy to install .deb/system

Dude... thanks for your work in this. Much appreciated.

so, stupid question before I go off running and installing this into my n800 - I take it it's both N8X0's?

aw hell, mebbe I'll just install and see...

(fingers crossed)

Yeah, it's for both N8x0's. I'm using it in my N800 fine.

okmaybe I'm not smart enough - so how do I install thiis? when Ii click on the link, ap manager says I'm missing a dependancy of 'wget' which I assume means I need rooot access? That I do know, but after sudo root-ing, what then?

I though wget was in extras... let me go and chase that down.

@buma:
You probably need to add the repository where 'wget' can be found, then the dependencies should be resolved by apm. (However I can't look at the .deb myself so I'm guessing. The link for some reason gives me a content-type of uknown/unknown, which our firewall blocks.)

Either way I'm dropping wget as a dependency *soon* since I've got a much better idea in store. Give me a few days to pound out an idea.

oooooh... okay
after a half hour, I finally found it online, uninstalled all my repos / reinstalled all repos and then it finally showed up on my list...

@ brontide
I know you said you were going to remove that dependancy, but... um... I'm impatient

one question however on your previous work - I made all the changes to the microb about:config files and at first, it seemed slower... that is until I revisited the site a second time. But I'm guessing that's because the cache was cleared when it was resized?

and I guess i shoulda made a backup copy of the prefs.ps file prior to changing stuffs...

still - fingers crossed!

This does not do the prefs.js change so you should be fine.

The newer version ( not even started yet ) will not require wget, but for now it is what it is.