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on 03/12/2009 09:45 AM Grant wrote the following: |
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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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Here is my setup so far: |
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Aspire one A110L, MMCs are Transcend¢s 8GB Class 6 SDHC (SD |
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High-Capacity) Lifetime Warranty :-) |
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# uname -a |
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Linux atom 2.6.28-gentoo-r3 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Mar 8 16:00:20 EET 2009 |
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i686 Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N270 @ 1.60GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux |
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# cat /etc/fstab |
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LABEL=GENTOOROOT / ext2 noatime 0 1 |
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LABEL=SYSTEM /mnt/SYSTEM ext2 noatime 0 2 |
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LABEL=ARXEIO /mnt/ARXEIO ext2 noatime 0 2 |
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LABEL=SWAP none swap sw 0 0 |
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/mnt/SYSTEM/var /var none rbind 0 0 |
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/mnt/SYSTEM/tmp /tmp none rbind 0 0 |
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/mnt/SYSTEM/home /home none rbind 0 0 |
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/mnt/SYSTEM/portage /usr/portage none rbind 0 0 |
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shm /dev/shm tmpfs size=20M,nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0 |
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# fdisk -l |
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Disk /dev/sda: 8069 MB, 8069677056 bytes |
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255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 981 cylinders |
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Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes |
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Disk identifier: 0x6aa76660 |
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Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System |
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/dev/sda1 1 981 7879851 83 Linux |
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Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 8017 MB, 8017412096 bytes |
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4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 244672 cylinders |
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Units = cylinders of 64 * 512 = 32768 bytes |
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Disk identifier: 0x65221dec |
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Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System |
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/dev/mmcblk0p1 1 32769 1048600 82 Linux swap |
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/ Solaris |
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/dev/mmcblk0p2 32770 244672 6780896 83 Linux |
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Disk /dev/mmcblk1: 8017 MB, 8017412096 bytes |
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4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 244672 cylinders |
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Units = cylinders of 64 * 512 = 32768 bytes |
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Disk identifier: 0xea7e7be7 |
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Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System |
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/dev/mmcblk1p1 1 244672 7829496 83 Linux |
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# cat /etc/make.conf |grep -v \# |cat -s |
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CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe -msse3 -fomit-frame-pointer" |
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CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" |
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VIDEO_CARDS="intel" |
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INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard synaptics mouse" |
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ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" |
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ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" |
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MAKEOPTS="-j2" |
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LINGUAS="en el" |
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FEATURES="buildpkg parallel-fetch userfetch metadata-transfer" |
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AUTOCLEAN="yes" |
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PORTAGE_NICENESS="18" |
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PORTAGE_IONICE_COMMAND="ionice -c 3 -p \${PID}" |
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PORTDIR=/usr/portage/ |
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PORT_LOGDIR=/var/tmp/portage/ |
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PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp/" |
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PORTAGE_TMPFS="/dev/shm" |
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PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES="warn error log" |
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DISTDIR=/usr/distfiles/ |
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PKGDIR=/usr/packages/ |
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DISTCC_DIR="${PORTAGE_TMPDIR}/.distcc/" |
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CCACHE_DIR="${PORTAGE_TMPDIR}/ccache/" |
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GENTOO_MIRRORS="..." |
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SYNC="..." |
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USE="acpi alsa ao avahi bash-completion cairo cscope cups dbus dri |
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encode ffmpeg gif gimp gmp gnome gnome-keyring gstreamer gtk gtkhtml hal |
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java java6 javascript jpeg jpeg2k lm_sensors lzo mad mbox mikmod mmx |
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mpeg msn networkmanager nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl oss php |
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png ppds samba scanner sdl sndfile sse sse2 truetype unicode usb |
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vim-syntax vorbis wifi wavpack win32codecs X xinetd xft xulrunner xv |
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xvid zeroconf" |
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I' m running gnome, firefox, thunderbird, etc, and have compiled even |
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openoffice on it without a problem. :-) |
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