I have recently gotten Gentoo installed on a Sony Vaio PCG-C1XD; I am using Gentoo sources (linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r5) but it seems quite slow.
Now I know it's only a little Pentium II, but I haven't even installed KDE, yet! It has 64meg RAM and 750meg of the 12 gig drive is swap. I arranged this swap as hda2, right after my /boot partition, as I believe this allows faster access. (?) hdparm says: omf root # hdparm -Tt /dev/hda /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 6.86 seconds = 18.66 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 6.36 seconds = 10.07 MB/sec Hmm.. [dodgy] results: probably not enough free memory for a proper test. omf root # /etc/init.d/hdparm start * Starting hdparm... * Running hdparm on disc0... [ ok ] omf root # hdparm -Tt /dev/hda /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 6.64 seconds = 19.28 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 6.36 seconds = 10.06 MB/sec Hmm.. [dodgy] results: probably not enough free memory for a proper test. omf root # Could this be the cause of my poor performance..? Certainly, activities involving many disc accesses seem to be particularly slow. At the end of an emerge sync, I'm sure the "updating portage cache" part is much faster on my other machine. Many thanks for any comments, Stroller. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
