From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OlPdF-0003n2-Mo for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:07:25 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E0328E0C74 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:07:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from einstein.22decembre.eu (einstein.22decembre.eu [88.174.229.171]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A51BE062C for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:59:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by einstein.22decembre.eu (Postfix, from userid 300) id E003212200; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:59:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: from luciole.localnet (unknown [192.168.0.254]) by einstein.22decembre.eu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07FC43C223 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:59:24 +0200 (CEST) From: =?utf-8?q?St=C3=A9phane_Guedon?= Organization: http://www.22decembre.eu To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on 8GB SSD Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:59:18 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.34-tuxonice-r1; KDE/4.5.0; x86_64; ; ) References: <4C69F69D.4050704@gmail.com> <4C6AB954.7050501@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4C6AB954.7050501@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart6057308.YBM5kOyv2p"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201008171859.24930.stephane@22decembre.eu> X-Spam-Flag: No, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000 X-Archives-Salt: d59195c4-ce6b-4244-aacf-ff165ccdc79c X-Archives-Hash: 09d7e754047384885d76bc67f2e5ca5d --nextPart6057308.YBM5kOyv2p Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Le Tuesday 17 August 2010 18:31:16, Bill Longman a =C3=A9crit : > On 08/17/2010 03:57 AM, Elmar Hinz wrote: > >> I am new in Gentoo. I installed Gnome. > >>=20 > >> Portage: 1,6 GB + Rest: 5,5 GB =3D 7,1 GB > >=20 > > Sorry: > >=20 > > Portage: 1,6 GB + Rest: 3,5 GB =3D 5,1 GB >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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). >=20 > My two cents. Is a SSD capable of supporting gentoo ? That's a good idea ! You may be a pionneer ! Let's try... =2D-=20 St=C3=A9phane Guedon page web : http://www.22decembre.eu/ carte de visite : http://www.22decembre.eu/downloads/Stephane-Guedon.vcf cl=C3=A9 publique gpg : http://www.22decembre.eu/downloads/Stephane-Guedon.= asc --nextPart6057308.YBM5kOyv2p Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkxqv+wACgkQuOgaSVDV+yCy+wCguv4QTwJOWDaiSqiqrtHlqnWx aGQAoKA2jbVIkYPvykEgq9KURed/igyF =Qlqw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart6057308.YBM5kOyv2p--