On Saturday 26 July 2008, Alan E. Davis wrote: > I want to express my joy at the result (except for some personal > errors, perhaps). This system runs MUCH faster, and more efficiently > than it did on Ubuntu. 1GB of RAM was often topped out on Ubuntu, > but on this machine even with four compiles going at once, I seldom > saw more than 5 or 600 MB of RAM in use (using HTOP and > Gnome-System-Monitor).
Congratulations and welcome to gentoo-land. It's quite a feat of accomplishment to get through your very first gentoo install :-) The speed-ups you see are quite common in reality, especially on lower grade machines than what Ubuntu targets. Your gentoo machine is profiled more towards what you need and less towards some broad average spec. I have the same thing at work - a 512M desktop running Hardy maxes out the RAM after 2 hours. That same machine would have run Dapper with ease. -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
