Re: [gentoo-user] New box

[J. Roeleveld]

On Friday, December 30, 2016 12:24:36 AM CET Dale wrote:
> J. Roeleveld wrote:
>
> > As for the specs:
> >
> > - 8 core CPU: nice
>
> Makes me drool a bit here.  I want a 8 core CPU.  The only downside,
> gkrellm won't have enough screen to show each core separately.  That's a
> problem there.  lol  It already takes up the whole right side on one
> desktop.  I guess I could make the thing shorter to fit them all in.

I know what you mean. What I miss is an option to have gkrellm on 1 side of 
the screen and when I maximize a window, that doesn't hide gkrellm.
I limited some of the sensors to be able to fit all 12 virtual cores.
(Or if there is, where do I set it)

> > - mSATA SSD: Make sure it fits your mainboard. NVMe is faster, but also
> > more expensive.
> > The Samsung EVO series are good for normal work-loads. The performance
> > does
> > tend to drop when the write-cache starts to fill up. With multiple VMs
> > using disk and swap, that can happen quicker then you think. Check your
> > requirements.
> >
> > - memory: Personally, I would increase this to 32GB with the fastest spec
> > that matches the CPU and mainboard. It helps a lot, especially with
> > Virtualbox. What isn't used by applications/VMs will be available for
> > disk-cache.
> Same here.  Putting portage's work directory on tmpfs does make it
> measurably faster.  Bad thing is, if Firefox and LibreO needs to update
> at the same time, I have to go back to spinning rust or do them by
> themselves.  It runs out of memory pretty fast.

I have 32GB in my desktop and I can run a "emerge -e @world" without issues 
and portages work directory is on tmpfs.
And that is with the following parallel-settings in make.conf:
MAKEOPTS="--jobs 12 --load-average 14"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--jobs 12 --load-average 14"
(Using a 6-core i7)

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