On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 08:46:46PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>
> For Ken, the reason I use /opt is primarily as an adjunct to
> /usr/{bin,lib}. It can segregate a package and if I want to build a
> large package, say Qt, I can put it there and then upgrade it without
> worrying if there are version conflicts. When I was working, I used Qt
> a lot and it was quite convenient, especially when transitioning from
> Qt3 to Qt4. On my latest system, I have icedtea, xorg, and ant on /opt.
> I use it as a crude package manager so that new packages can be
> installed and tested with the capability of easily backing up to older
> versions of a package if desired.
>
Sure, I understand that. But I imagine, perhaps wrongly, that
desktop environments will work better if they are on the fast disk.
So, using the SSD for / but with xorg and kde or qt in /opt on a
conventional drive would probably be slow to load.
The other interesting feature about timings is how measurable they
are. On my own machines there will be some cron jobs running from
time to time (disk checks with smartmontools - maybe not relevant
to the SSD but can be useful for conventional disks, log rotation,
backups, etc), plus whatever loadset is currently active [ think of
firefox as a memory hog ], plus any data in caches unless you drop
them. For small packages, I expect to see variations of a few
seconds in build times.
Anyway, enjoy it!
ĸen
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