on 03/12/2009 09:45 AM Grant wrote the following:
> I've installed and updated Gentoo on my girlfriend's Acer Aspire One
> netbook and it's just so slow. The only things I can think of to
> speed it up would be to upgrade the RAM from 1GB (not sure if that's
> possible) and/or swap out the SSD for a HD. Anyone running a netbook
> not excruciatingly slow?
>
> - Grant
Here is my setup so far:
Aspire one A110L, MMCs are Transcend’s 8GB Class 6 SDHC (SD
High-Capacity) Lifetime Warranty :-)
# uname -a
Linux atom 2.6.28-gentoo-r3 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Mar 8 16:00:20 EET 2009
i686 Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N270 @ 1.60GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
# cat /etc/fstab
LABEL=GENTOOROOT / ext2 noatime 0 1
LABEL=SYSTEM /mnt/SYSTEM ext2 noatime 0 2
LABEL=ARXEIO /mnt/ARXEIO ext2 noatime 0 2
LABEL=SWAP none swap sw 0 0
/mnt/SYSTEM/var /var none rbind 0 0
/mnt/SYSTEM/tmp /tmp none rbind 0 0
/mnt/SYSTEM/home /home none rbind 0 0
/mnt/SYSTEM/portage /usr/portage none rbind 0 0
shm /dev/shm tmpfs size=20M,nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0
# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 8069 MB, 8069677056 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 981 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x6aa76660
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 981 7879851 83 Linux
Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 8017 MB, 8017412096 bytes
4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 244672 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 64 * 512 = 32768 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x65221dec
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/mmcblk0p1 1 32769 1048600 82 Linux swap
/ Solaris
/dev/mmcblk0p2 32770 244672 6780896 83 Linux
Disk /dev/mmcblk1: 8017 MB, 8017412096 bytes
4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 244672 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 64 * 512 = 32768 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xea7e7be7
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/mmcblk1p1 1 244672 7829496 83 Linux
# cat /etc/make.conf |grep -v \# |cat -s
CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe -msse3 -fomit-frame-pointer"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
VIDEO_CARDS="intel"
INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard synaptics mouse"
ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel"
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
LINGUAS="en el"
FEATURES="buildpkg parallel-fetch userfetch metadata-transfer"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
PORTAGE_NICENESS="18"
PORTAGE_IONICE_COMMAND="ionice -c 3 -p \${PID}"
PORTDIR=/usr/portage/
PORT_LOGDIR=/var/tmp/portage/
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp/"
PORTAGE_TMPFS="/dev/shm"
PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES="warn error log"
DISTDIR=/usr/distfiles/
PKGDIR=/usr/packages/
DISTCC_DIR="${PORTAGE_TMPDIR}/.distcc/"
CCACHE_DIR="${PORTAGE_TMPDIR}/ccache/"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="..."
SYNC="..."
USE="acpi alsa ao avahi bash-completion cairo cscope cups dbus dri
encode ffmpeg gif gimp gmp gnome gnome-keyring gstreamer gtk gtkhtml hal
java java6 javascript jpeg jpeg2k lm_sensors lzo mad mbox mikmod mmx
mpeg msn networkmanager nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl oss php
png ppds samba scanner sdl sndfile sse sse2 truetype unicode usb
vim-syntax vorbis wifi wavpack win32codecs X xinetd xft xulrunner xv
xvid zeroconf"
I' m running gnome, firefox, thunderbird, etc, and have compiled even
openoffice on it without a problem. :-)
