Hello, I have 4 gentoo systems. Three are 1-3 years old, the fourth has just been rebooted for the first time after installing gento 2005.1 on it.
When I reboot any of the older three computers and simply type emerge it takes 14 to 20 seconds before I get a message from emerge. On the fourth computer this takes only 2 seconds or so. A second emerge commands on all machines retunrs quickly. Just to see if some kind of defragmentation might help, I made a full copy of my root partition to a new one, altered grub.conf and restarted. Emerge startup time improved from 20 to 14 seconds which is still rather slow. Programs like mplayer show simular initial startup times. All computer are athlon 1600-2000 based, and have hard disks tat read about 38 mb/s according to hdparm. Is there a way to speed up initial program load times? Kind regards, Henk. -- [email protected] mailing list
