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On Saturday 26 July 2008, Alan E. Davis wrote: |
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> I want to express my joy at the result (except for some personal |
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> errors, perhaps). This system runs MUCH faster, and more efficiently |
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> than it did on Ubuntu. 1GB of RAM was often topped out on Ubuntu, |
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> but on this machine even with four compiles going at once, I seldom |
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> saw more than 5 or 600 MB of RAM in use (using HTOP and |
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> Gnome-System-Monitor). |
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Congratulations and welcome to gentoo-land. It's quite a feat of |
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accomplishment to get through your very first gentoo install :-) |
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The speed-ups you see are quite common in reality, especially on lower |
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grade machines than what Ubuntu targets. Your gentoo machine is |
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profiled more towards what you need and less towards some broad average |
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spec. I have the same thing at work - a 512M desktop running Hardy |
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maxes out the RAM after 2 hours. That same machine would have run |
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Dapper with ease. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |