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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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>>> - Grant |
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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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>> 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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>> 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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>> 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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>> 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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>> 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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>> 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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>> 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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>> 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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> 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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Which of these still apply when using a conventional HD instead of a |
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SSD in the netbook? |
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- Grant |
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