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lemonisclown n00b
Joined: 14 Sep 2024 Posts: 1
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Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2024 9:40 pm Post subject: Installing on real hardware with bad specs |
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Hello everyone,
First of all, I'd like to say that I'm still a beginner when it comes to installing Gentoo. I really like the philosophy of this OS, but I'm still struggling on some points, even though my installations have generally gone very smoothly.
As the title suggests, I'll soon be installing Gentoo on real hardware. Every time I've done so, it's been on a virtual machine with pretty good specs (usually 6 cores minimum and 8g ram). This time, the machine will be... Let's say pretty bad. The CPU looks like this:
Intel Pentium D915 Dual Core.
This bad boy has 2 cores/2 threads. Which means I'll have plenty of time to do other things when it starts compiling. As for RAM, I don't know yet, but I'm guessing 1 or 2 GB. As for the hard disk, it'll be HDD, as I don't have any SSDs to spare.
I'm coming to you for help with optimization. Indeed, my use will be limited to C programming. I specify C, because I don't intend to use Rust, for example. What's more, I can get along just fine with tmux and vim, with which I already work very well. Indeed, if RAM is low, I don't think I'll need a graphical interface. Besides, I don't think I'd really want one on this war monster.
I think I'll need help with "make.conf" or maybe even during installation.
Thank you in advance for your future messages,
Lemon. |
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flysideways Guru
Joined: 29 Jan 2005 Posts: 465
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Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2024 2:04 am Post subject: |
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It will be easier if you can manage 2Gb of memory per thread used for compiling. Once the system starts paging the compiles get much longer. |
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logrusx Advocate
Joined: 22 Feb 2018 Posts: 2222
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Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2024 4:32 am Post subject: |
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It might be possible to use the binhost for this. If not, as someone who used to use a slightly newer dual core E6200 with 6GB of RAM and later a quad core Q6600 with 8GB of RAM up until 3 years ago, I'd say get rid of that thing. It's not worth the electricity it'll use.
Check with if it supports the generic x68_64 instruction set with
Best Regards,
Georgi |
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