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henkg@××××××××××××××.nl wrote: |
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>Hello, |
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>I have 4 gentoo systems. Three are 1-3 years old, the fourth has just |
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>been rebooted for the first time after installing gento 2005.1 on it. |
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>When I reboot any of the older three computers and simply type |
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>emerge |
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>it takes 14 to 20 seconds before I get a message from emerge. On the |
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>fourth computer this takes only 2 seconds or so. |
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>A second emerge commands on all machines retunrs quickly. |
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>Just to see if some kind of defragmentation might help, I made a full |
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>copy of my root partition to a new one, altered grub.conf and restarted. |
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>Emerge startup time improved from 20 to 14 seconds which is still rather |
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>slow. |
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>Programs like mplayer show simular initial startup times. |
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>All computer are athlon 1600-2000 based, and have hard disks tat read |
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>about 38 mb/s according to hdparm. |
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>Is there a way to speed up initial program load times? |
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How much memory do these machines have? No matter what you answer, I |
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have seen improvement with using -Os in my CFLAGS. This makes the |
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executables optimized for size (-O2 without optimizations that increase |
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size IIRC). This means that binaries read from disk faster, as they are |
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smaller and that they also take less RAM, reducing the need for swap, |
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should the system be using it. |
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As always, YMMV. |
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Tom Veldhouse |
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