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 1LhqLA-0005Zv-Vy for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:13:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 64091E01EB; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:13:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20783E01EB for ; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:13:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id j4so660136wah.2 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:13:01 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=9D9r1HoLQWjsn3lDMwYXlML+bls0BrpXY1x5yOjjjc0=; b=pCQf+WF7qwDu8Nd+v90/yQ2Ra6dmfWFNdRAUrNtR2/OZdJtutMKwlDZJOg7gFQumIN pwvPWL9eXnw9vifNQRQuO4g5/tjsNIgBz4wTkMJm8i8CzseruUieg8R49l8StUDmxImP HhxXWzY7ylzU1RI7vPkOmvR1v5PbUCw4vt3o0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=qBbivBCuNuK9u9r8oGEzTAlworjr1gYVjTgUvNaNLB9Op8udiYKpWkgGXoxkCZTGyl DznhnpYdr14PXmy4ZU/iI8goW2BmV9wcuHqo5iSKK1m1/R+CTuOIXvL8pDOa0lB4/99p zn+792qn2gCrb5NTV4Hmh06SspaJkwUuNup/Y= 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 Received: by 10.114.158.1 with SMTP id g1mr202629wae.126.1236885181594; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:13:01 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <49B946A5.8020906@f_philipp.fastmail.net> References: <49bf44f10903120045u6c373f3fs2a7a46c41c01f69e@mail.gmail.com> <49B946A5.8020906@f_philipp.fastmail.net> Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:13:01 -0700 Message-ID: <49bf44f10903121213w605c6badp141bf5ca3e1ac278@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone running a Netbook satisfactorily on Gentoo? From: Grant To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 8717bce3-44e4-4952-a38c-51c3d5714bcf X-Archives-Hash: b5a9f4a354804fa21f7c6a0221be9043 >> I've installed and updated Gentoo on my girlfriend's Acer Aspire One >> netbook and it's just so slow. =A0The 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. =A0Anyone running a netbook >> not excruciatingly slow? >> >> - Grant >> > > 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. Thanks guys, these are the kinds of tips I need. I really want this thing to work out so I can switch over to one. Lemme see if I've got this: 1. run xfce4 (already do) 2. compile with -Os (I was using -O2) 3. use ext2 (I was using ext3) 4. don't use laptop-mode (I didn't know it existed) 5. no syslog (does this mean don't even emerge a system logger like metalog= ?) 6. use elevator=3Dnoop at boot 7. deactivate DRI 8. upgrade RAM to the max Sound about right? - Grant