On 10/29/19 11:08 PM, Trent via blfs-support wrote:
On 10/29/19 10:54 AM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support wrote:
On 10/29/19 9:56 AM, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-support wrote:
On 10/29/19 12:51 AM, Trent via blfs-support wrote:
[trim!]
Though I would still like to know about adding a swap partition.
I am considering using a very low power Mini-ITX board I got with
8GB of RAM. The problem is that is has a Celeron N3050 (Asus
N3050M-E). While it is rather newer than all the other available
lower power systems I got available, it for some reason does not
support any MMX, or SSE extensions. I tried running Windows 10 on
it. According to the resource meter, Windows 10 has both cores (no
hyper threading) pegged in the 90 percentile range constantly.
Meanwhile, the current Atom board I am using now, actually runs
Windows 10 decently.
Anyone know how good, or bad this would do once I got a desktop
environment going?
Thanks again everyone!
Hi Trent,
When you add a swap partition, you should be good to go. Desktop
environment should run okay on either of those depending on what it
is, X is really light. I had GNOME running on my 32-bit machine, and
that's where I'm headed right now on that one (fixing some 32-bit
compilation problems). It ran pretty well considering it only had an
Intel 945GM for a GPU. Plasma didn't run though but at least started.
I got the most performance out of XFCE on that one, although because
of my vision it was very painful to use at times.
Any of those machines that you have should do a good job! Although
your Celeron N3050 will severely struggle without MMX or SSE support
in anything that requires heavy graphics rendering - but something
like Fluxbox or IceWM would probably work good on it. I'd honestly
stay with the Atom if you can though.
Just remember that when swap is used, things get very slow. A 10x
increase in build times for those large packages that use swap would
not be unexpected.
-- Bruce
Would that still be the case even with an SSD drive (though the board
only supports SATAII)?
LOL. OK, only 5x.
-- Bruce
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