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2009/1/20 Paul Hartman |
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<paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com<paul.hartman%2Bgentoo@×××××.com> |
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> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Grant Edwards <grante@××××.com> wrote: |
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> > I'm in the process of installing Gentoo on a rather old |
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> > machine. It's an old HP Pavilion with a 450MHz Celeron |
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> > Mendocino and 256MB of PC133 SDRAM. I'm using an nVidia PCI |
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> > FX6200 video board instead of the i810 on-board chip, and it's |
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> > got a decent hard drive (160GB). |
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> > I was wondering if there were any particular tips/tricks for |
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> > getting the best performance out of such a machine. It's to be |
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> > used for basic word processing and a few games. Hopefully the |
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> > nVidia 6200 will allow OpenGL to run fast enough for something |
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> > like TuxRacer. |
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> > I chose XFCE for the desktop along with both Abiword and |
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> > OpenOffice. I probably should have installed OOo from a binary |
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> > package, but I decided to build it just to see how long it |
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> > would take (so far it's at about 26 hours and counting). |
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> My biggest suggestion for a slow machine is: distcc |
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For something that slow even distcc wont do that much good, there are a |
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number or packages that dont like distcc, and things like configure scripts |
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will still run on the slow pc. A better option would be to use a faster pc |
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to create binary packages and then point the slower pc to the binary repo, |
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that way to doesnt even have to try and compile anything (which imo is |
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crazy, im surprised OO hasnt crashed and run out of memory during its |
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compile!). |
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Do some digging, theres guides on the gentoo forums and the wiki i think for |
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setting up binpkg hosts. |
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- Nick |
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