- If you can get into the filesystem I would rm /etc/rc2.d/S99sysctl

This is why it's alpha work. As soon as I have a good set I will make a deb file out of these changes.

I'm worried that having internal vs external mmc would also change the performance profile.

No, he doesn't have a problem, he just learned that the settings will reset on reboot With the sysctl script they will be reapplied.

I thought of that but figured it shouldn't be that great a variance compared to what you're doing. But here's an even better idea (OK, I'm a near-know-nothing, but it sounds better to me): After you flash back to original system, go to dual-booting. Then you'll have a MMC of the original system. Let's call it MMC-A. Add your applications, etc. but not your config settings. Make a copy of that onto another card -- call that MMC-B. Then you can make your pref.js changes and other tweaks to MMC-B and, for when you want to compare, or start over, just swap out MMC-B, replace it with MMC-A, and reboot.

wow. . .

i've only done the browser pref changes and, like others, found this very easy to do on the about:config prefs page in the browser.

what a difference. the browser, my main app on my IT, and one of my biggest dissappointments, is much faster and much more usable. why isn't nokia paying people to tune their software like this?

thsnks for the great post.

Ok, I'm starting to nail things down some. Here are the "quick fix" pref changes that will make the most difference. Copy and paste... I tried linking, but the forum is eating the about:config somehow.

about:config?browser.cache.memory.capacity=8192
about:config?network.http.max-connections=2
about:config?network.http.max-connections-per-server=1
about:config?network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server=1
about:config?network.http.pipelining.maxrequests=1 000

I still think the sysctl changes improve interactivity under load, but not enough to justify making a mess of people's systems ( yet ). Enabling swap for now should provide enough of a boost for most people.

Maybe its a placebo, maybe not. I'd like to add my .02 and say for the browser its speeded up for me as well. I made a text file of the settings on my external mmc card so I can reapply them after the next firmware upgrade that will probably over-write them!

brontide, those browser changes are wonderful. but gmail seems to be almost painfully slow, as others have pointed out. looking forward to your .deb

edit: i just tried your links, but i keep getting a 404-like "Server not found", i assume they should open to the standard about:config page?

I'm most concerned about google apps as well. I really don't know what to say, the javascript swamps the CPU of this device and I don't know what's possible without some serious low level optimization of the javascript interpreter.

Darn... looks like the forum software is killing my links