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shgadwa
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 Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 3:33 am Post subject: Maintaining Gentoo?? |
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I'm mainly asking for some ideas here...
I've been using the same Gentoo install for a long time now. Actually, only a little over a year, I think. Although for the most part, I'm really happy with Gentoo... I remember my computer being a lot faster when I first installed gentoo. It seems like maybe I might have a leak in my ram somehow. I only have 1GB RAM and I NEED to upgrade. Still, I remember when it was using A LOT less ram. And I've not done a whole lot of tweaking except for the usual updates and such. I do have the as-needed LD-Flag, and I have a customized zen-sources kernel which I built "from seed." Also, I don't use ~x86 except when I need to... like if the stable version does not install, or I'm using compiz, or openrc, and the like.
So, besides the usual things that most of us all know, what are some things to do to give gentoo continuous tlc? Its late and I'm not thinking of a whole lot of specifics. Maybe one thing would be to defragment my EXT4 partition??
I'd be tempted to try out compcache but it just sounds odd to use ram as swap.
Thanks a lot,
~Shawn |
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bombcar
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If you're using a GUI, you're using lots of RAM. Newer versions of GUI programs almost always use more RAM, and something like compiz, etc will want gobs.
I'd recommend upgrading to the maximum amount of RAM your system can take, or at least 2GB. Even my servers have that much these days.
Check the output of free to see how much swap you're using:
| Code: | # free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 996164 878240 117924 0 418816 257788
-/+ buffers/cache: 201636 794528
Swap: 506512 7356 499156
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If the amount of "used" swap is greater than the amount of buffers/cached, you need more RAM. |
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Ahenobarbi
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| As suggested take a look at free ( to check if it's problem with RAM). Also try rc-status to see if you have any unneeded services and top/htop to see whats using most RAM. |
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Raptor85
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| I'd second the advice of running top to see what's eating away your ram, i have a few current gentoo systems < 512 megs of ram that are still snappy and have been constantly running for 2-3 years. Maybe try out lighter window managers like XFCE or fluxbox? (personally, XFCE is my favorite) It's been a while since I've used it but i remember kde/gnome having a lot it likes to run by default, and it's probably accumulated more over the years. |
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beandog
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| Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 8:32 pm Post subject: Re: Maintaining Gentoo?? |
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| belikeyeshua wrote: | | So, besides the usual things that most of us all know, what are some things to do to give gentoo continuous tlc? Its late and I'm not thinking of a whole lot of specifics. Maybe one thing would be to defragment my EXT4 partition?? |
emerge tmpwatch and make sure you configure it (edit it in the cron directory). That'll at least help cleanup the FS a bit.
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