Performance Options
- P2 Overlay File System – enable the overlay file system. Most users should not enable this option but it might be helpful for specialist use cases such as a kiosk, or industrial controller. There’s also an option to write-protect the boot partition.
- P4 USB Current – Increase the current supplied to the USB ports.
Next page: Page 6 – Localisation Options
Pages in this article:
Page 1 – Introduction
Page 2 – System Options
Page 3 – Display Options
Page 4 – Interface Options
Page 5 – Performance Options
Page 6 – Localisation Options
Page 7 – Advanced Options
All articles in this series:
| Raspberry Pi 5 Series | |
|---|---|
Hardware | |
| iRasptek Starter Kit | All the kit you need to get started with the Pi 5 |
| Pironman 5 Case Review | Transform the Pi 5 into a beautiful desktop mini PC |
| Passive Cooling the Pi 5 | Passively cool your Pi 5 the right way. Silent yet cool |
| Benchmarking | Benchmarking the Pi 5 against an Intel N100 mini PC |
| Overclocking | Let's increase the clock speed of the BCM2712 SoC |
| Power Consumption | Compare the power consumption of the Pi 5 with Intel Mini PCs |
Configuration | |
| raspi-config | Useful text-based tool to configure the Pi 5 |
| Increase Swap Memory Size | Increase the swap size from 512MB to 2GB |
| ZRAM swapdrive | Simple script to use a ZRAM swapdrive instead of a swapfile |