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 1NLwPg-0005te-Nt for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 19 Dec 2009 10:19:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5341AE0504; Sat, 19 Dec 2009 10:19:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zion.lichtfels.com (zion.lichtfels.com [88.198.33.170]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23E6AE0504 for ; Sat, 19 Dec 2009 10:19:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zion.lichtfels.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD6E218402A for ; Sat, 19 Dec 2009 11:18:57 +0100 (CET) Received: from zion.lichtfels.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zion [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with LMTP id 10639-07 for ; Sat, 19 Dec 2009 11:18:56 +0100 (CET) Received: from [172.32.99.12] (mail.oops.co.at [213.129.238.225]) by zion.lichtfels.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id B9472184006 for ; Sat, 19 Dec 2009 11:18:56 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4B2CA899.8020803@xunil.at> Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 11:19:05 +0100 From: "Stefan G. Weichinger" Organization: oops! User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; de; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091209 Thunderbird/3.0 ThunderBrowse/3.2.6.8 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] gentoo on ssds? intel anyone? References: <4B05CB09.20209@xunil.at> <4B2C02DD.8000107@xunil.at> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-maia at lichtfels.com X-Archives-Salt: eae95702-e334-4cd3-a964-9519027155e8 X-Archives-Hash: 9b3192b56734795d58018f5612ecd894 Am 19.12.2009 09:08, schrieb Stroller: >> Could anyone comment? > > Might it help if you said WHY you're unimpressed? might be ;-) It seems as if my system doesn't benefit that much: With 8 gigs of RAM, suspend-to-ram, preload and only a handful of rather lightweight binaries in regular use this system is already pretty fast with hdds only. I expected more WOW in terms of overall speed ... OK, I have to admit that it boots way faster, yup. Around under 25 secs from grub to gdm-login on ssd compared to 45-50 secs on hdds. I just moved /var to ssd as well so that apart from the larger data-LVs the whole gentoo-os runs from ssd now. Just to check ... The difference might be more noticeable compared to slower hdds as in notebooks (might give it a try in my thinkpad as well) and with apps doing more i/o. My daily apps are only a few: thunderbird, opera, firefox, gnome-terminal, openoffice, acrobat reader, skype, gwibber ... vmware-server ... and the usual utilities like gthumb and stuff ... so there are no heavyweights afai see. All of these get cached pretty soon (I think) so that the overall experience is rather fast with the hdd-based-raid1-root-fs as well. Maybe I just have to use it for a while and then boot back from hdds to really get the picture :-) Stefan