On 08/17/2010 03:57 AM, Elmar Hinz wrote: >> >> I am new in Gentoo. I installed Gnome. >> >> Portage: 1,6 GB + Rest: 5,5 GB = 7,1 GB > > Sorry: > > Portage: 1,6 GB + Rest: 3,5 GB = 5,1 GB
I guess to best answer this question you need to ask what you want to do. What are you trying to speed up? Booting? Emerging? Just general speedup? With only 8GB, I'm not sure there's much you can do to simply put it in and, presto, you're 186% ricing. You'll have to look at where the heaviest I/O is taking place and at what times. Just off the top of my head, I'd say you'd want to put /var/tmp and maybe /tmp if yours isn't a tmpfs. If you have plenty of RAM, the OS will cache most of the /bin, /lib and /usr/bin stuff for you, so what will you gain if you put those there, for the fraction of them that you actually use? If you are *low* on RAM, you would want to put /usr/lib on the SSD. It's 1.7G on my desktop system (KDE, XFCE). My two cents.
