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What a funny script!

First, I advise against all those random sysctl changes. See http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...4&postcount=93

Second, you don't save the sysctl changes to /etc/sysctl.conf, so next reboot all changes are lost.

Third, changing swap size to 256 MB has zero impact in performance. Given the N8x0's RAM size, it may be even worse when running certain programs (*cough* firefox *cough*) that can cause swap hell. You simply end losing at least 128 MB of valuable internal mmc storage.

And fourth and worse of all, you download a rc.d script from someones server, which from a security POV is a complete disaster (I'm refraining from saying worse things). No doubt the server's owner is a nice guy and won't do anything evil, but why download a startup script from somewhere when it should be simply included in the deb package?

And then, after creating the rc2.d link you remove it!!! And what's the purpose of the last sleep sentece? Look like it is doing something while it just waits some time?

The only thing good you actually do is disabling metalayer-crawler, though you do not warn about the consecuences (losing mediaplayer playlists)
 

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