up:
General tricks

  1. Read http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/HowTo/Install and http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/TipsAndTricks, most of it applies.

  2. In /etc/sysctl.conf, set 

    1. vm.swappiness = 0
vm.dirty_writeback_centisecs = 1500

  3. In /etc/fstab, set / to noatime,commit=30,errors=remount-ro. Don't forget to disable grml-rebuildfstab in /etc/grml/autoconfig!