Re: [gentoo-user] To x86_64 or not to x86_64

[Benjamen R. Meyer]

Alex Schuster wrote:
> Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
>
>> I have an AMD 64x2 that I have been using only in x86 mode since I got
>> it.  I have been thinking of going to x86_64 mode but I'm wondering if
>> it's worth the trouble with multilib, chroot'ing, firefox-bin and other
>> compromises (admittedly some minor).  I realize I should see some speed
>> increase but probably only in certain areas such as compiling.
>> So, for those users who have used both, is it worth it overall?
> Next thing I would never have thought of: the root file system was too
> small. I made it 500 MB bis, as /usr, /var, /opt, /tmp and /home are on
> LVM. A little small because of /root/.ccache, but I usually symlink that to
> somewhere else. But why is /lib/modules larger than 300 MB? I would expect
> this to be around 30 MB, which is double the size of these directories on
> my other system, but even ten times more than that? Is something wrong
> here? The installation handbook does not mention this, and also suggest a
> small root partition. The examplee shows 132 MB used there, this looks okay
> to me.

Here's my FS setup from df:

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdb1             9.4G  7.2G  1.8G  81% /
/dev/hdb2             471M   27M  420M   7% /boot
/dev/hda2              31G  3.7G   25G  13% /usr/portage
/dev/mapper/vg_tmp    4.0G  154M  3.6G   5% /tmp
/dev/mapper/vg_var     11G  518M  9.8G   5% /var
/dev/mapper/vg_usr    9.9G  151M  9.2G   2% /usr/local
/dev/mapper/vg_opt    9.9G  505M  8.9G   6% /opt
/dev/mapper/vg_home    30G   26G  2.1G  93% /home


I have a few other partitions for things too, but the above covers the 
normal and essential. Additionally I have a couple gigs of swap space. YMMV

I also checked my lib size - which is about 53MB for /lib64, and 4.3MB 
for /lib32. /usr (including sub-mounts, e.g. local and portage) comes 
out to  11GB. /opt is 335 MB, and /var is 309 MB.

So I don't know what went wrong for you.

 > Flash does not work (yet). I emerged netscape-flash and and
 > nspluginwrapper, but firefox and konqueror do not have flash working.
 > Did not investigate this further yet.

I've only really been able to get Flash working with the 32-bit Firefox 
binary. It will randomly work in the 64-bit Firefox build for some 
reason, but nothing consistent - and when it does, only one web page can 
use it at a time - not multi-tabs each with their own flash. Perhaps 
that's just a result of the nswrapper-plugin to make the 32-bit and 
64-bit work together...not sure.

Any how...overall, it runs really well. I can't offer any advice on the 
video issues.

Ben

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