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If a fast filesystem is upmost, try ext2. It's numbers are impressive, |
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it is the standard. |
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The only difference between it and ext3 is the journaling, which |
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allows for a fast recovery if you have a power outage or something. |
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The only downside of ext2 is that the disk checking after something |
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like a power outage is slow. |
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On 18:30 Wed 29 Jun , gramhorst@××××××××××××.ar wrote: |
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> Thank you Jonathan... so perhaps moving to jfs could make it? It seems from googling around that its CPU usage is constantly low. Any experiences with it? |
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> Thanks in advance, Willy. |
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> ----- Mensaje original ----- |
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> De: Jonathan Smith <smithj@g.o> |
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> Fecha: Miércoles, Junio 29, 2005 6:24 pm |
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> Asunto: Re: [gentoo-performance] Resources for Gentoo Desktop Performance Tuning |
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> > > Hi Gentooers. I've been playing around with Gentoo for a while, |
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> > > comes the time to tune up things a bit, as my k6-2 500mhz cpu and |
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> > 256mb> RAM are getting a bit slowy. I 've emerged gnome (which I no |
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> > longer use |
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> > > except for some icons and perhaps a couple of utilities), xfce4 and |
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> > > icewm. The last 2 of which I'm playing with, along with ROX for file |
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> > > management and desktop (pinboard). |
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> > > I would like to know about pointers to guides, hints & tips on |
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> > > tailor a Gentoo system the improve performance (e.g. what |
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> > > comment out, USE flags, file system issues, etc etc). Oh, forgot to |
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> > > mention I'm using ReiserFS 3 fs's except /boot which is ext2. |
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> > > Any help will be appreciated. |
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> > > Thanks in advance!!! |
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> > > Willy. |
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> > using reiser on your system is a _bad_ idea. reiser requires large |
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> > ammounts of cpu power, which you don't seem to have |
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> > there is a nice fluxbox guide in the gentoo documentation if you are |
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> > still looking for WM guides |
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