Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone running a Netbook satisfactorily on Gentoo?

[Justin]

Thanasis wrote:
> on 03/12/2009 09:45 AM Grant wrote the following:
>> I've installed and updated Gentoo on my girlfriend's Acer Aspire One
>> netbook and it's just so slow.  The only things I can think of to
>> speed it up would be to upgrade the RAM from 1GB (not sure if that's
>> possible) and/or swap out the SSD for a HD.  Anyone running a netbook
>> not excruciatingly slow?
>>
>> - Grant
> Here is my setup so far:
> Aspire one A110L, MMCs are Transcend’s 8GB Class 6 SDHC (SD
> High-Capacity) Lifetime Warranty :-)
>
> # uname -a
> Linux atom 2.6.28-gentoo-r3 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Mar 8 16:00:20 EET 2009
> i686 Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N270 @ 1.60GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
> # cat /etc/fstab
> LABEL=GENTOOROOT    /        ext2    noatime    0 1
> LABEL=SYSTEM        /mnt/SYSTEM    ext2    noatime    0 2
> LABEL=ARXEIO        /mnt/ARXEIO    ext2    noatime    0 2
>
> LABEL=SWAP        none            swap    sw    0 0
>
> /mnt/SYSTEM/var         /var        none  rbind 0 0
> /mnt/SYSTEM/tmp        /tmp        none  rbind 0 0
> /mnt/SYSTEM/home    /home        none  rbind 0 0
> /mnt/SYSTEM/portage    /usr/portage    none  rbind 0 0
>
> shm    /dev/shm tmpfs    size=20M,nodev,nosuid,noexec    0 0
>
>  # fdisk -l
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 8069 MB, 8069677056 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 981 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x6aa76660
>
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1               1         981     7879851   83  Linux
>
> Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 8017 MB, 8017412096 bytes
> 4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 244672 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 64 * 512 = 32768 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x65221dec
>
>         Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/mmcblk0p1               1       32769     1048600   82  Linux swap
> / Solaris
> /dev/mmcblk0p2           32770      244672     6780896   83  Linux
>
> Disk /dev/mmcblk1: 8017 MB, 8017412096 bytes
> 4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 244672 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 64 * 512 = 32768 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0xea7e7be7
>
>         Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/mmcblk1p1               1      244672     7829496   83  Linux
>
>  # cat /etc/make.conf |grep -v \# |cat -s
>
> CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe -msse3 -fomit-frame-pointer"
> CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
>
> VIDEO_CARDS="intel"
> INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard synaptics mouse"
> ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel"
>
> ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86"
>
> MAKEOPTS="-j2"
> LINGUAS="en el"
>
> FEATURES="buildpkg parallel-fetch userfetch metadata-transfer"
> AUTOCLEAN="yes"
> PORTAGE_NICENESS="18"
> PORTAGE_IONICE_COMMAND="ionice -c 3 -p \${PID}"
>
> PORTDIR=/usr/portage/
> PORT_LOGDIR=/var/tmp/portage/
> PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp/"
> PORTAGE_TMPFS="/dev/shm"
> PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES="warn error log"
>
> DISTDIR=/usr/distfiles/
> PKGDIR=/usr/packages/
>
> DISTCC_DIR="${PORTAGE_TMPDIR}/.distcc/"
> CCACHE_DIR="${PORTAGE_TMPDIR}/ccache/"
>
> GENTOO_MIRRORS="..."
>
> SYNC="..."
>
> USE="acpi alsa ao avahi bash-completion cairo cscope cups dbus dri
> encode ffmpeg gif gimp gmp gnome gnome-keyring gstreamer gtk gtkhtml hal
> java java6 javascript jpeg jpeg2k lm_sensors lzo mad mbox mikmod mmx
> mpeg msn networkmanager nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl oss php
> png ppds samba scanner sdl sndfile sse sse2 truetype unicode usb
> vim-syntax vorbis wifi wavpack win32codecs X xinetd xft xulrunner xv
> xvid zeroconf"
>
>
> I' m running gnome, firefox, thunderbird, etc, and have compiled even
> openoffice on it without a problem. :-)
>
>
>
can oyu provide us our kernel config?