Maintenence of Gentoo??!

hotpotato · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 19 Jul 2002 Posts: 81

Hi,

Just curious as to what others do to maintain their system, i.e. keep it running in top condition. I've had Gentoo 1.4 running on here for just over 2 months now, and it seems to be running slower than when I first installed it.

Is there anything that you should do periodically like defragment in windoze? (I know this is not necessary in Linux).

Thanks,
HotPotato

dreamer3 · Guru Joined: 24 Sep 2002 Posts: 553

Defragmentation isn't a big concern. See here.

Just keep your packages up to date with emerge. :-)

Not much to maintaining a single user Linux system (that I'm aware) of. Just stay up to date on security, patches, and stuff (emerge). Clean out /var/logs every once in a while. Check for evil hackers... :wink:

*shrugs*

I think it's your imagination telling you it's running slower... I'd swear my system runs faster every day than the day before... ;-)

hook · Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2002 9:58 am Post subject:

yeah, it's probably just your imagination

...it should work the same as before

a question: did you install any new software or hardware or even (re)compiled your kernel during thesee 2 months?
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hotpotato · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 19 Jul 2002 Posts: 81

Hi,

Yep. I have emerged a bunch of new software - dvd stuff, cd recording stuff e.t.c - and I have re-compiled kernel a few times. Can this slow it down?

Thanks,
HotPotato

dreamer3 · Guru Joined: 24 Sep 2002 Posts: 553