Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on 8GB SSD

["Stéphane Guedon" <stephane@22decembre.eu>]

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Le Tuesday 17 August 2010 18:31:16, Bill Longman a écrit :
> On 08/17/2010 03:57 AM, Elmar Hinz wrote:
> >> I am new in Gentoo. I installed Gnome.
> >> 
> >> Portage: 1,6 GB + Rest: 5,5 GB =  7,1 GB
> > 
> > Sorry:
> > 
> > Portage: 1,6 GB + Rest: 3,5 GB =  5,1 GB
> 
> I guess to best answer this question you need to ask what you want to
> do. What are you trying to speed up? Booting? Emerging? Just general
> speedup? With only 8GB, I'm not sure there's much you can do to simply
> put it in and, presto, you're 186% ricing. You'll have to look at where
> the heaviest I/O is taking place and at what times. Just off the top of
> my head, I'd say you'd want to put /var/tmp and maybe /tmp if yours
> isn't a tmpfs.
> 
> If you have plenty of RAM, the OS will cache most of the /bin, /lib and
> /usr/bin stuff for you, so what will you gain if you put those there,
> for the fraction of them that you actually use? If you are *low* on RAM,
> you would want to put /usr/lib on the SSD. It's 1.7G on my desktop
> system (KDE, XFCE).
> 
> My two cents.

Is a SSD capable of supporting gentoo ? That's a good idea !
You may be a pionneer ! Let's try...
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