Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on 8GB SSD

[Bill Longman <bill.longman@gmail.com>]

On 08/17/2010 03:57 AM, Elmar Hinz wrote:
>>
>> I am new in Gentoo. I installed Gnome.
>>
>> Portage: 1,6 GB + Rest: 5,5 GB =  7,1 GB
> 
> Sorry:
> 
> Portage: 1,6 GB + Rest: 3,5 GB =  5,1 GB

I guess to best answer this question you need to ask what you want to
do. What are you trying to speed up? Booting? Emerging? Just general
speedup? With only 8GB, I'm not sure there's much you can do to simply
put it in and, presto, you're 186% ricing. You'll have to look at where
the heaviest I/O is taking place and at what times. Just off the top of
my head, I'd say you'd want to put /var/tmp and maybe /tmp if yours
isn't a tmpfs.

If you have plenty of RAM, the OS will cache most of the /bin, /lib and
/usr/bin stuff for you, so what will you gain if you put those there,
for the fraction of them that you actually use? If you are *low* on RAM,
you would want to put /usr/lib on the SSD. It's 1.7G on my desktop
system (KDE, XFCE).

My two cents.