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 1OlPZO-0003WC-Js for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:03:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0490CE0B8E for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:03:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pv0-f181.google.com (mail-pv0-f181.google.com [74.125.83.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB6D1E08AC for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:31:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pvg16 with SMTP id 16so3365537pvg.40 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 09:31:19 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=NjZGnxiQ3RTdSedR7VZ7VZZr42dcBjInwDrYWTfMVYQ=; b=xOoU5PjWUvOnZ+M1aZQqbG7JuwAhyPbaTFSuyhl3eAUXON43rt5zTFbQEkydC0CQgs A+3kb6vrbJmEauf/eNb+Vvuhd2r9Cc48vOYM3v6wADkQwDdvhRroz+20PkKDxEfcUNct MrU7Rp3PdRZ+saSeqqGr7HnAfKmFA9Ao5HLqc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=VOcrG/0qr4GAP15EbS8FcTUhclBP1q9L1Vx0Hs3kEtmRf/oQQ0NEWm3fQi6hjgQY8/ wJA9nxhYt4qoz0Ju9RfQlKA0anUIjndzIhURbhsMlTCbQtuGmFNLCfO4XCFohHs6IneM 2Q8XIIXom0HDmcbfZFEPOAUtIYOUXGDWLwa3w= Received: by 10.114.124.18 with SMTP id w18mr8163002wac.6.1282062679217; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 09:31:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.12] ([209.20.133.224]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id c24sm14641219wam.7.2010.08.17.09.31.17 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 17 Aug 2010 09:31:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C6AB954.7050501@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 09:31:16 -0700 From: Bill Longman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100727 Thunderbird/3.1.1 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 8GB SSD References: <4C69F69D.4050704@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 64f67db7-ef5d-4269-99bf-2643001adf20 X-Archives-Hash: a2c7f582e2d6c46eae9c7d8f90bfb380 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.