I linked the cache of mozilla to /tmp/something (that is created on login) and habe my home on the big slow sdd. workes nice and the cache is automatically cleared on startup :-)
anyway, I use the eee for data aquisation and not to work with. nik Am Freitag, 12. Juni 2009 schrieb Ernesto Domato: > Well, I'd decided to reinstall my Eee 901 because the first time, I'd > used LVM to join the two internal SSD. The problem that I see with > this is that because of the slow write performance on the 16Gb disc, > sometimes the machines hangs for several seconds waiting for something > to finish. Maybe this is not related to LVM and the second disc, but > after reading the wiki article about the problem with Mozilla > (http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/TipsAndTricks#SpeedupsluggishIceweasel. >2BAC8-Firefox3) I thought that maybe some changes on the partitioning may > help to the situation. > > So, this is what I was thinking and will like to know your feedback: > > The 4Gb disc is the fastest at writing, so my idea is to create 2 > partitions. The first one will be 1Gb for /var since the system writes > often here (for example, on /var/log) and the second will 3Gb for > /home (I'll explain why this soon). > > Then, on the 16Gb create two more partitions. The first will be 4Gb > for / and the second one will be 12Gb for /var/local/homes_data > > So, the idea of the 3Gb partition mounted on /home is to be used for > all the dot-directory (the hidden ones) that use to be updated often > by the programs you use to keep configuration changes and things like > that (see the Mozilla problem that I point before). The rest (for > example the Desktop directory) is linked to > /var/local/homes_data/$USER for storage purpose. > > As you can see, the whole idea is to try to gain the maximum > performance from this nice machine. > > What did you think?. > > Thanks. > Ernesto. > > _______________________________________________ > Debian-eeepc-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-eeepc-devel -- Mag. Dr. Nikolaus Klepp IT Consultant Einnehmerstraße 14 A-4810 Gmunden Tel.: +43 650 82 11 724 email: [email protected] _______________________________________________ Debian-eeepc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-eeepc-devel
