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On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Justin <justin@×××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> Grant schrieb: |
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>>>> I've installed and updated Gentoo on my girlfriend's Acer Aspire One |
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>>>> netbook and it's just so slow. The only things I can think of to |
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>>>> speed it up would be to upgrade the RAM from 1GB (not sure if that's |
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>>>> possible) and/or swap out the SSD for a HD. Anyone running a netbook |
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>>>> not excruciatingly slow? |
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>>>> |
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>>>> - Grant |
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>>>> |
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>>> I've got an Acer One for my father. I don't know the exact type; it is |
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>>> the one with the 8GB SSD. |
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>>> |
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>>> I found it quiet usable, installed Gentoo with a minimal KDE3 on it. |
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>>> Compiled with -Os, of course. RAM usage is below 256MB most of the time. |
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>>> The only things I didn't get to work are 3D acceleration and the SSD |
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>>> card slots but I haven't invested much time into it. |
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>>> |
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>>> The slowest part of the system is the SSD. It really slows things done |
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>>> when they are loaded for the first time (for example the HTML part of |
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>>> Konqueror takes 3s to load AFTER Konqueror itself came up). |
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>>> |
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>>> The rest of the system is pretty fast for my expectations.I compiled |
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>>> most things in a chroot on my Celeron notebook (2 or 3 times the speed) |
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>>> before moving it over but I really found compiling not _that_ slow. Its |
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>>> usable for most regular updates and even kernels and such alike. For |
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>>> larger packages, I mount an NFS share on /var/tmp/portage because I |
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>>> don't want to wear down the SSD. |
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>>> |
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>>> Other tips: |
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>>> Use ext2 FS. You don't want the journalling to cost you even more |
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>>> performance and wear down the SSD. |
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>>> |
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>>> I wouldn't use laptop-mode. You don't want it to bog down the system |
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>>> when it decides to flush its write cache. |
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>>> No syslog, it will only wear down the disk with many small write cycles. |
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>>> |
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>>> Use the noop IO scheduler (boot parameter elevator=noop). There is no |
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>>> need for a scheduler on an SSD. |
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>>> |
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>>> ArchLinux also recommends deactivating DRI ('Option "DRI" "0"' in |
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>>> xorg.conf) to free up 32MB of memory. |
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>>> |
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>>> Hope this helps. |
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>> |
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>> Thanks guys, these are the kinds of tips I need. I really want this |
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>> thing to work out so I can switch over to one. Lemme see if I've got |
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>> this: |
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>> |
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>> 1. run xfce4 (already do) |
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>> 2. compile with -Os (I was using -O2) |
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>> 3. use ext2 (I was using ext3) |
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>> 4. don't use laptop-mode (I didn't know it existed) |
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>> 5. no syslog (does this mean don't even emerge a system logger like metalog?) |
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>> 6. use elevator=noop at boot |
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>> 7. deactivate DRI |
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>> 8. upgrade RAM to the max |
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> |
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> 9. use distcc |
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Won't that require another machine using the same CPU arch? Or can |
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cross-compiler be setup on the remote distcc box? (I don't even know |
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if GCC has an atom-specific CPU or if it is using something more |
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generic) |