Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone running a Netbook satisfactorily on Gentoo?

[Thanasis <thanasis@asyr.hopto.org>]

on 03/12/2009 09:45 AM Grant wrote the following:
> 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?
>
> - Grant
Here is my setup so far:
Aspire one A110L, MMCs are Transcend’s 8GB Class 6 SDHC (SD
High-Capacity) Lifetime Warranty :-)

# uname -a
Linux atom 2.6.28-gentoo-r3 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Mar 8 16:00:20 EET 2009
i686 Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N270 @ 1.60GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
# cat /etc/fstab
LABEL=GENTOOROOT    /        ext2    noatime    0 1
LABEL=SYSTEM        /mnt/SYSTEM    ext2    noatime    0 2
LABEL=ARXEIO        /mnt/ARXEIO    ext2    noatime    0 2

LABEL=SWAP        none            swap    sw    0 0

/mnt/SYSTEM/var         /var        none  rbind 0 0
/mnt/SYSTEM/tmp        /tmp        none  rbind 0 0
/mnt/SYSTEM/home    /home        none  rbind 0 0
/mnt/SYSTEM/portage    /usr/portage    none  rbind 0 0

shm    /dev/shm tmpfs    size=20M,nodev,nosuid,noexec    0 0

 # fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 8069 MB, 8069677056 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 981 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x6aa76660

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1         981     7879851   83  Linux

Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 8017 MB, 8017412096 bytes
4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 244672 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 64 * 512 = 32768 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x65221dec

        Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/mmcblk0p1               1       32769     1048600   82  Linux swap
/ Solaris
/dev/mmcblk0p2           32770      244672     6780896   83  Linux

Disk /dev/mmcblk1: 8017 MB, 8017412096 bytes
4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 244672 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 64 * 512 = 32768 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xea7e7be7

        Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/mmcblk1p1               1      244672     7829496   83  Linux

 # cat /etc/make.conf |grep -v \# |cat -s

CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe -msse3 -fomit-frame-pointer"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"

VIDEO_CARDS="intel"
INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard synaptics mouse"
ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel"

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86"

MAKEOPTS="-j2"
LINGUAS="en el"

FEATURES="buildpkg parallel-fetch userfetch metadata-transfer"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
PORTAGE_NICENESS="18"
PORTAGE_IONICE_COMMAND="ionice -c 3 -p \${PID}"

PORTDIR=/usr/portage/
PORT_LOGDIR=/var/tmp/portage/
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp/"
PORTAGE_TMPFS="/dev/shm"
PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES="warn error log"

DISTDIR=/usr/distfiles/
PKGDIR=/usr/packages/

DISTCC_DIR="${PORTAGE_TMPDIR}/.distcc/"
CCACHE_DIR="${PORTAGE_TMPDIR}/ccache/"

GENTOO_MIRRORS="..."

SYNC="..."

USE="acpi alsa ao avahi bash-completion cairo cscope cups dbus dri
encode ffmpeg gif gimp gmp gnome gnome-keyring gstreamer gtk gtkhtml hal
java java6 javascript jpeg jpeg2k lm_sensors lzo mad mbox mikmod mmx
mpeg msn networkmanager nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl oss php
png ppds samba scanner sdl sndfile sse sse2 truetype unicode usb
vim-syntax vorbis wifi wavpack win32codecs X xinetd xft xulrunner xv
xvid zeroconf"


I' m running gnome, firefox, thunderbird, etc, and have compiled even
openoffice on it without a problem. :-)