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From: Martin Vaeth <martin@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage performance dropped considerably
Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 13:17:50
Message-Id: slrnlev5mv.fvt.martin@bois.imp.fu-berlin.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage performance dropped considerably by Greg Turner
1 Greg Turner <gmt@×××××.us> wrote:
2 > On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 2:55 AM, Martin Vaeth <martin@×××××.de> wrote:
3 >> On fast processors
4 >> portage's speed is not so much a big issue.
5 >
6 > What kind of processor have you got, and where can I get one?
7
8 I run gentoo on i3 (double core), c2 (double core), athlon, and pentium3.
9 Only on athlon and pentium3 the speed is really annoying. So increasing
10 the speed on the two faster processors by a factor 1.3 by parallelization,
11 probably even at the cost of slightly decreasing the speed on the
12 slower processors (perhaps even dramatically if the algorithm then needs
13 more swap usage which already occurs now with 512MB RAM)
14 will altogether be perhaps even counterproductive for my use case.