Re: [gentoo-performance] Speeding up program starts with squashfs

2007-05-09 Thread lnxg33k
I can't speak about squashfs. However, as Derek Tracy eluded to, you can do other things to improve performance such as running a different init system. I remembering trying init-ng a while back and it ran fine, but I didn't want to take the time to mess with it too much and reverted back to sys

Re: [gentoo-performance] performance testing

2007-04-29 Thread lnxg33k
It seems I'm still on this list. Although it's low traffic, some interesting stuff comes across. I don't have anything useful to add, but I'd be interested in following the progress of your group. If the information is going to be made public or if you are starting a forum thread, drop a line he

Re: [gentoo-performance] More portage questions

2006-01-24 Thread lnxg33k
Alec Warner wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 lnxg33k wrote: I added the metadata/some-cat to the rsync_exclude list by prefacing every entry with an '*'. Vastly increased the 2nd phase of sync'ing and cleared up some storage. I gather that the the cached

[gentoo-performance] More portage questions

2006-01-24 Thread lnxg33k
I added the metadata/some-cat to the rsync_exclude list by prefacing every entry with an '*'. Vastly increased the 2nd phase of sync'ing and cleared up some storage. I gather that the the cached files end up in "/var/cache/edb/dep/usr/portage/". Would purging the rsync_exclude entries here caus

Re: [gentoo-performance] gentoo-performance (sync speedups)

2006-01-20 Thread lnxg33k
Alec Warner wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 lnxg33k wrote: Thanks Alec Warner for the great explanation. It still seems like by not having portions of the tree by using EXCLUDEFORM and deleting the local dirs that you'd save some time in the --metadata part of sync as

Re: [gentoo-performance] gentoo-performance (sync speedups)

2006-01-20 Thread lnxg33k
Thanks Alec Warner for the great explanation. It still seems like by not having portions of the tree by using EXCLUDEFORM and deleting the local dirs that you'd save some time in the --metadata part of sync as less ebuilds are available to be checked. Is this simply a wrong misconception? -- ge

Re: [gentoo-performance] gentoo-performance

2006-01-19 Thread lnxg33k
Jeremy Brake wrote: How about speeding up the wait time on updating the portage cache after a sync.. even on my AMD 64 3500 it takes a number of minutes to chug through.. are there any known ways to "vrrmmm" this up a little? Jeremy Although not exactly what you're asking, you might want to

Re: [gentoo-performance] gentoo-performance

2006-01-19 Thread lnxg33k
Chris wrote: funny that a "high performance linux" has a dead performance ML... LOL Could be evidence that the "ricer" crowd doesn't read? (i.e. they post to more generic lists or use other mediums instead of something specific for their needs) -- gentoo-performance@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-performance] gentoo-performance

2006-01-19 Thread lnxg33k
Ken Robbins wrote: Hi my first gentoo performance came today but it way only a header no body what up with that? Mine too and I've been listening for a while. I think this ML may be dead ... *pokes the darkness* -- gentoo-performance@gentoo.org mailing list