On Donnerstag 27 November 2008, Fernando Boaglio wrote: > Hi again, =) > > Yesterday I was installing my Gentoo from stage3 and I noticed (with > htop) even though my machine has 4Gb, only 350mb (tops) was used > during compilation. > > Is there any way to improve my memory usage ?
if it doesn't need more, it won't use more. You can speed things up a bit with -pipe cflag and /var/tmp/portage on tmpfs > > Another question: the cooler from quadcore box is too much noisy, and > my old machine ( X2 4200+ - Socket 939) has an excellent Zalman cooler > , but will be safe to use it ? Zalman and excellent? Really? Check their website. Most Zalman coolers aren' compatible with AM2 or not powerfull enough. http://www.frostytech.com/ http://www.frostytech.com/top5heatsinks.cfm has a lot of cooler reviews.
