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 1R1HBI-0008JA-Oi for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2011 12:24:40 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F40FC21C188; Wed, 7 Sep 2011 12:24:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svr-us4.tirtonadi.com (unknown [69.65.43.212]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18E2421C111 for ; Wed, 7 Sep 2011 12:23:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f53.google.com ([209.85.161.53]) by svr-us4.tirtonadi.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R1HAB-002rVU-R5 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2011 19:23:31 +0700 Received: by fxd23 with SMTP id 23so534413fxd.40 for ; Wed, 07 Sep 2011 05:23:25 -0700 (PDT) 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 10.223.8.1 with SMTP id f1mr2921350faf.102.1315398205269; Wed, 07 Sep 2011 05:23:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.223.95.207 with HTTP; Wed, 7 Sep 2011 05:23:25 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4E675E3C.3000206@binarywings.net> References: <4E666C9C.8000605@gmail.com> <4E675E3C.3000206@binarywings.net> Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 19:23:25 +0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem with lowest CPU load, acceptable emerge performance, and stable? From: Pandu Poluan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - svr-us4.tirtonadi.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lists.gentoo.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - poluan.info X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 79ba2f99f075bd2daaf542cf6303dada On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 19:06, Florian Philipp wrote= : > Am 06.09.2011 21:24, schrieb James Broadhead: >> On 6 September 2011 19:55, Permjacov Evgeniy wrote= : >>> On 09/06/2011 09:26 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: >>>> Disk I/O Characteristic: Occasional writes during 'normal' usage, >>>> once-a-week eix-sync + emerge -avuD >>>> Priority: Stable (i.e., less chance of corruption), least CPU usage. >> >> You would have to profile this, but I imagine that the best approach >> would be to compile in a RAM disk and copy. I think that you're >> probably trying to optimise the wrong part of this problem. >> >> As for ext3/ext4, the improvements to fsck alone make ext4 the FS of >> choice between the two. >> >> JB >> > > Pandu is building a firewall. Putting a ton of RAM in it just for the > sake for system updates is plain overkill and -- depending on his IaaS > provider -- pretty expensive. > Indeed. If I need more RAM, they will only sell a complete package of vCPU+RAM+Storage, which will then be merged with my current package. They do offer Storage-only add-on packages, though. But that's beside the p= oint. Rgds, --=20 FdS Pandu E Poluan ~ IT Optimizer ~ =C2=A0=E2=80=A2 LOPSA Member #15248 =C2=A0=E2=80=A2 Blog : http://pepoluan.tumblr.com =C2=A0=E2=80=A2 Linked-In : http://id.linkedin.com/in/pepoluan