On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 03:40:10PM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote: > I played around w/ gentoo a few months ago (and promptly came back to > debian (i missed apt) ). But i do miss the optimization i experienced > w/ gentoo (despite what everyone says, there was a very noticeable > difference in performance on my machine between debian and gentoo), so i
Sorry for questioning you're perception of speed increase. I have played with Gentoo as well. I liked it very much. Mostly because of the stability of the desktop. Don't know how or why, but X + Windowmaker sometimes hangs on my machine in a way that makes a BSOD pretty. I think it's a lockup somewhere on a very low level, because killing a bunch of stuff from a shell prompt (logged in from another machine) won't give me back a prompt. Anyway a Gentoo installation is nowhere near as full featured as the cleanest and smallest Debian installation. A lot of things just don't work "out of the box". Is it at all possible that this is why Gentoo feels faster? One other thing I noticed is that Gentoo brought up my disks in UDMA 100 mode, Debian did not. Ofcourse I went in to change this in Debian. Et voila, a speed increase that I never thought of getting before. > I dont' really want to build everything from source (that takes way too > long on my k6-2), but i was thinking maybe compiling glibc, moz, > (g|bz)ip, etc might be a good thing... what would be the best way to go > about this? I really had to compile a package with optimization for my situation. There were some threads on this and the debian-sparc lists. It had to do with libssl. That was easily the most difficult thing I have done on a Debian system. I used the source package, and followed instructions found in the usual places, but had to search a long time for the place to change some compiler flags. I believe that there are some packages that assist in this, but it is all very non-intuitive. I got a confirmation of this, after reading some messages (DWN or -devel list, I think) that discussed this. I believe something is in the works for a future release that makes optimization a lot easier. I have never been much of a performance tweaker (hardware or software). The libssl deb was really necassary for me; ssh-login now takes three seconds in stead of 12 or more (arch related btw). So unless you can be more specific on what to optimize, it's perhaps best to find out what other things make Gentoo faster instead of recompiling packages that might or might not make the base-system faster. Good luck if you despite my rambling would still like to go on. Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
