From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LPKSu-0003eq-UP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:32:42 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 55165E0584; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:32:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rv-out-0708.google.com (rv-out-0708.google.com [209.85.198.251]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1F68E0584 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:32:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by rv-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b17so3532472rvf.46 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:32:02 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=cmhskZPYGya5Cr1AjOyi8w8cTTa2MrFODIqEhX7iZ/I=; b=Mjt7X2pKqXwELHTqLQbQZsKHRd/+NEP3FyxZ78xXL3Ho17WSo83u8XOVteyHusjRxK pr84/gl3sQvZH8BxNMvsqWLrNy0PLk20hlpRGV7A/ivHFtINdzRlexlCLNTD5rsURmHD GjtJ69ybHREngz6RyxCLfNx2b2cHjYufIFGJk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=vcZnkWtQKPTro5MuRRbdw0ATfTPawOeDbHIj+2vAFCFTTphngVboTWJNPgilufTMgz J0WQ3KBvsdwuwUwdBwq5x/vahH2506c3huUeoFBg3JAu4NjTJx9S/FO3TOVaS1LTe7bx acR+4jwtiprl1lusnRL+HHlh8yp7TufMOIQl0= 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 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.141.211.5 with SMTP id n5mr250037rvq.137.1232472722459; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:32:02 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <200901201805.58619.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <60a795cd0901200915g59b5436cvf1a837cc74dd176c@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:32:02 -0600 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 57561f4698b020b4 Message-ID: <58965d8a0901200932j19e16d5ekfa14db8846d4c443@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer? From: Paul Hartman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 0652033a-1b30-4b01-ac7d-868d9cf47445 X-Archives-Hash: e1cd45ef2d4f2929a8be07026fea61eb On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Nick Cunningham wrote: > > > 2009/1/20 Alejandro >> >> >> 2009/1/20 Volker Armin Hemmann >>> >>> On Dienstag 20 Januar 2009, Grant Edwards wrote: >>> > I'm in the process of installing Gentoo on a rather old >>> > machine. It's an old HP Pavilion with a 450MHz Celeron >>> > Mendocino and 256MB of PC133 SDRAM. I'm using an nVidia PCI >>> > FX6200 video board instead of the i810 on-board chip, and it's >>> > got a decent hard drive (160GB). >>> > >>> > I was wondering if there were any particular tips/tricks for >>> > getting the best performance out of such a machine. It's to be >>> > used for basic word processing and a few games. Hopefully the >>> > nVidia 6200 will allow OpenGL to run fast enough for something >>> > like TuxRacer. >>> > >>> > I chose XFCE for the desktop along with both Abiword and >>> > OpenOffice. I probably should have installed OOo from a binary >>> > package, but I decided to build it just to see how long it >>> > would take (so far it's at about 26 hours and counting). >>> >>> if you don't need any special features, kde+koffice needs less ram than >>> xfce+openoffice. >>> >>> And installing ooo from source is unsupport. The build breaks all the >>> time and >>> you don't get anything from it. All it does is starting a second faster. >>> It >>> does not need less ram nor does it run faster. >>> >>> >> >> "installing ooo from source is unsupport" How is this? Maybe you >> missundertand i think he run emerge openoffice and not openoffice-bin > > I believe he means that generally speaking, trying to build OO from source > on a low-end (and especially low RAM) machine is ill-advised and can often > be the cause of build failures as OO is well known to require a lot of RAM > and hdd space while it compiles. > > - Nick > I know it needs 5gb+ of tmpdir space, but compiling it with 256mb may be futile :)