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From: "Stéphane Guedon" <stephane@××××××××××.eu>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on 8GB SSD
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:07:25
Message-Id: 201008171859.24930.stephane@22decembre.eu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on 8GB SSD by Bill Longman
1 Le Tuesday 17 August 2010 18:31:16, Bill Longman a écrit :
2 > On 08/17/2010 03:57 AM, Elmar Hinz wrote:
3 > >> I am new in Gentoo. I installed Gnome.
4 > >>
5 > >> Portage: 1,6 GB + Rest: 5,5 GB = 7,1 GB
6 > >
7 > > Sorry:
8 > >
9 > > Portage: 1,6 GB + Rest: 3,5 GB = 5,1 GB
10 >
11 > I guess to best answer this question you need to ask what you want to
12 > do. What are you trying to speed up? Booting? Emerging? Just general
13 > speedup? With only 8GB, I'm not sure there's much you can do to simply
14 > put it in and, presto, you're 186% ricing. You'll have to look at where
15 > the heaviest I/O is taking place and at what times. Just off the top of
16 > my head, I'd say you'd want to put /var/tmp and maybe /tmp if yours
17 > isn't a tmpfs.
18 >
19 > If you have plenty of RAM, the OS will cache most of the /bin, /lib and
20 > /usr/bin stuff for you, so what will you gain if you put those there,
21 > for the fraction of them that you actually use? If you are *low* on RAM,
22 > you would want to put /usr/lib on the SSD. It's 1.7G on my desktop
23 > system (KDE, XFCE).
24 >
25 > My two cents.
26
27 Is a SSD capable of supporting gentoo ? That's a good idea !
28 You may be a pionneer ! Let's try...
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Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on 8GB SSD "Norman Rieß" <norman@×××××××××.org>