Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on 8GB SSD
On 08/17/10 18:59, Stéphane Guedon wrote: > > Is a SSD capable of supporting gentoo ? That's a good idea ! > You may be a pionneer ! Let's try... Not really. Gentoo is running fine on SSD and why wouldn't it. A data storage device does not care what data it stores. Gentoo is even running fine on CF. This is my first hand experience. Regards Norman
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on 8GB SSD
Le Tuesday 17 August 2010 18:31:16, Bill Longman a écrit : > 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. Is a SSD capable of supporting gentoo ? That's a good idea ! You may be a pionneer ! Let's try... -- Stéphane Guedon page web : http://www.22decembre.eu/ carte de visite : http://www.22decembre.eu/downloads/Stephane-Guedon.vcf clé publique gpg : http://www.22decembre.eu/downloads/Stephane-Guedon.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on 8GB SSD
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.
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on 8GB SSD
> > 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
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on 8GB SSD
2010/8/17 Hal Martin : > A friend recently gave me a SimpleTech Zeus 8GB SSD. I'd like to replace my > hard drive with this SSD for the lower latency and faster access times it > will provide. > > Currently my / partition is 24GB, 20GB of which is in use. Using xdiskusage > I see that /usr/portage and /var/tmp are using approximately 10GB, which is > well over the 7.5GB I have on the SSD. I am new in Gentoo. I installed Gnome. Portage: 1,6 GB + Rest: 5,5 GB = 7,1 GB Maybe you just need to do some cleanup of your outdated sources? Regards Al
