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 1LhojX-0001WO-Tt for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:30:16 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6BE0DE01D3; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:30:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CE2AE01D3 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:30:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.internal [10.202.2.41]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCD452EDCB8; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:30:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:30:13 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: DCamqseHErONeJ49vjNnxh4yXotb/gpTwa7lc06iXwPv 1236879012 Received: from [10.129.150.230] (unknown [92.116.150.230]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7EAFC2630D for ; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:30:12 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <49B946A5.8020906@f_philipp.fastmail.net> Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:30:13 +0100 From: Florian Philipp User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090126) 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone running a Netbook satisfactorily on Gentoo? References: <49bf44f10903120045u6c373f3fs2a7a46c41c01f69e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10903120045u6c373f3fs2a7a46c41c01f69e@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig3C646E40E18C4E0BA24B6E67" X-Archives-Salt: fe8d0327-d0c5-4f48-bfe6-adc27ca80a11 X-Archives-Hash: e539c1676f640155ea5465eabb96ee9f This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig3C646E40E18C4E0BA24B6E67 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Grant schrieb: > I've installed and updated Gentoo on my girlfriend's Acer Aspire One > netbook and it's just so slow. The only things I can think of to > speed it up would be to upgrade the RAM from 1GB (not sure if that's > possible) and/or swap out the SSD for a HD. Anyone running a netbook > not excruciatingly slow? >=20 > - Grant >=20 I've got an Acer One for my father. I don't know the exact type; it is the one with the 8GB SSD. I found it quiet usable, installed Gentoo with a minimal KDE3 on it. Compiled with -Os, of course. RAM usage is below 256MB most of the time. The only things I didn't get to work are 3D acceleration and the SSD card slots but I haven't invested much time into it. The slowest part of the system is the SSD. It really slows things done when they are loaded for the first time (for example the HTML part of Konqueror takes 3s to load AFTER Konqueror itself came up). The rest of the system is pretty fast for my expectations.I compiled most things in a chroot on my Celeron notebook (2 or 3 times the speed) before moving it over but I really found compiling not _that_ slow. Its usable for most regular updates and even kernels and such alike. For larger packages, I mount an NFS share on /var/tmp/portage because I don't want to wear down the SSD. Other tips: Use ext2 FS. You don't want the journalling to cost you even more performance and wear down the SSD. I wouldn't use laptop-mode. You don't want it to bog down the system when it decides to flush its write cache. No syslog, it will only wear down the disk with many small write cycles. Use the noop IO scheduler (boot parameter elevator=3Dnoop). There is no need for a scheduler on an SSD. ArchLinux also recommends deactivating DRI ('Option "DRI" "0"' in xorg.conf) to free up 32MB of memory. Hope this helps. --------------enig3C646E40E18C4E0BA24B6E67 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkm5RqUACgkQqs4uOUlOuU/LQwCfaD3GujimfxPRmkZsVFXThe3e jc8AmgN5Ii3CdEzWJJq8/gQE/BG2nouc =D8E/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig3C646E40E18C4E0BA24B6E67--