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Grant schrieb: |
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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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> - Grant |
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I've got an Acer One for my father. I don't know the exact type; it is |
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the one with the 8GB SSD. |
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I found it quiet usable, installed Gentoo with a minimal KDE3 on it. |
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Compiled with -Os, of course. RAM usage is below 256MB most of the time. |
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The only things I didn't get to work are 3D acceleration and the SSD |
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card slots but I haven't invested much time into it. |
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The slowest part of the system is the SSD. It really slows things done |
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when they are loaded for the first time (for example the HTML part of |
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Konqueror takes 3s to load AFTER Konqueror itself came up). |
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The rest of the system is pretty fast for my expectations.I compiled |
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most things in a chroot on my Celeron notebook (2 or 3 times the speed) |
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before moving it over but I really found compiling not _that_ slow. Its |
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usable for most regular updates and even kernels and such alike. For |
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larger packages, I mount an NFS share on /var/tmp/portage because I |
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don't want to wear down the SSD. |
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Other tips: |
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Use ext2 FS. You don't want the journalling to cost you even more |
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performance and wear down the SSD. |
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I wouldn't use laptop-mode. You don't want it to bog down the system |
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when it decides to flush its write cache. |
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No syslog, it will only wear down the disk with many small write cycles. |
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Use the noop IO scheduler (boot parameter elevator=noop). There is no |
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need for a scheduler on an SSD. |
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ArchLinux also recommends deactivating DRI ('Option "DRI" "0"' in |
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xorg.conf) to free up 32MB of memory. |
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Hope this helps. |