On Friday, December 30, 2016 12:24:36 AM CET Dale wrote: > J. Roeleveld wrote: > > > As for the specs: > > > > - 8 core CPU: nice > > Makes me drool a bit here. I want a 8 core CPU. The only downside, > gkrellm won't have enough screen to show each core separately. That's a > problem there. lol It already takes up the whole right side on one > desktop. I guess I could make the thing shorter to fit them all in.
I know what you mean. What I miss is an option to have gkrellm on 1 side of the screen and when I maximize a window, that doesn't hide gkrellm. I limited some of the sensors to be able to fit all 12 virtual cores. (Or if there is, where do I set it) > > - mSATA SSD: Make sure it fits your mainboard. NVMe is faster, but also > > more expensive. > > The Samsung EVO series are good for normal work-loads. The performance > > does > > tend to drop when the write-cache starts to fill up. With multiple VMs > > using disk and swap, that can happen quicker then you think. Check your > > requirements. > > > > - memory: Personally, I would increase this to 32GB with the fastest spec > > that matches the CPU and mainboard. It helps a lot, especially with > > Virtualbox. What isn't used by applications/VMs will be available for > > disk-cache. > Same here. Putting portage's work directory on tmpfs does make it > measurably faster. Bad thing is, if Firefox and LibreO needs to update > at the same time, I have to go back to spinning rust or do them by > themselves. It runs out of memory pretty fast. I have 32GB in my desktop and I can run a "emerge -e @world" without issues and portages work directory is on tmpfs. And that is with the following parallel-settings in make.conf: MAKEOPTS="--jobs 12 --load-average 14" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--jobs 12 --load-average 14" (Using a 6-core i7) -- Joost
