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 1Lhsl2-0000po-M6 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:48:04 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 69009E01F7; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:48:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vergina.dyndns.org (adsl148-94.ath.forthnet.gr [77.49.39.94]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6406E01F7 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:48:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vergina.dyndns.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vergina.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38F3C8519F43 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:48:00 +0200 (EET) Received: from [192.168.0.19] (atom.vergina.dyndns.org [192.168.0.19]) by vergina.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB1B48519F3A for ; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:47:59 +0200 (EET) Message-ID: <49B9830F.1000601@asyr.hopto.org> Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:47:59 +0200 From: Thanasis User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090307) 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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-7 X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 9585733c-d7bf-4ad1-ab76-f1ceed8c7df1 X-Archives-Hash: c3fbfe3c0d1d8a2653199aa3cc9b1ca6 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=A2s 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=3DGENTOOROOT / ext2 noatime 0 1 LABEL=3DSYSTEM /mnt/SYSTEM ext2 noatime 0 2 LABEL=3DARXEIO /mnt/ARXEIO ext2 noatime 0 2 LABEL=3DSWAP 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=3D20M,nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0 # fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 8069 MB, 8069677056 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 981 cylinders Units =3D cylinders of 16065 * 512 =3D 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 =3D cylinders of 64 * 512 =3D 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 =3D cylinders of 64 * 512 =3D 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=3D"-march=3Dnative -O2 -pipe -msse3 -fomit-frame-pointer" CXXFLAGS=3D"${CFLAGS}" VIDEO_CARDS=3D"intel" INPUT_DEVICES=3D"keyboard synaptics mouse" ALSA_CARDS=3D"hda-intel" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=3D"~x86" MAKEOPTS=3D"-j2" LINGUAS=3D"en el" FEATURES=3D"buildpkg parallel-fetch userfetch metadata-transfer" AUTOCLEAN=3D"yes" PORTAGE_NICENESS=3D"18" PORTAGE_IONICE_COMMAND=3D"ionice -c 3 -p \${PID}" PORTDIR=3D/usr/portage/ PORT_LOGDIR=3D/var/tmp/portage/ PORTAGE_TMPDIR=3D"/var/tmp/" PORTAGE_TMPFS=3D"/dev/shm" PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES=3D"warn error log" DISTDIR=3D/usr/distfiles/ PKGDIR=3D/usr/packages/ DISTCC_DIR=3D"${PORTAGE_TMPDIR}/.distcc/" CCACHE_DIR=3D"${PORTAGE_TMPDIR}/ccache/" GENTOO_MIRRORS=3D"..." SYNC=3D"..." USE=3D"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. :-)