J. Roeleveld wrote: > 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)
I wish we could divide it in half. Have some sensors on the left side and some on the right. Dang, 12 cores. That does take up a lot of room. To have it all show up, one would about have to turn their monitor on its side and make it tall instead of wide. > >>> - 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 > My settings: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps y --backtrack=100 --keep-going -v -j8 --quiet-build=n -1" I forgot I had that set to 8 jobs. Wonder why I did that? Given your experience, I want to get more ram and more cores. Dale :-) :-)
