I'm starting to wonder how much difference gentoo's optimization actually makes. The labs at uni where I'm writing this from have near identical hardware (Athlon 1400, 256 MB DDR ram, Intel PRO, etc...) to my Debian workstaion at home, except that my desktop has a GF4 graphics versus S3 generic, and an SB Live rather than crappy onboard sound. Given this, I'd expect the machines to be fairly similar in speed. While I know that gentoo does optimize stuff, and it does result in performance gains, It shouldn't make that much difference. Things like GNOME and Nautilus start somewhere in the order of 10 to 15 times faster than on my machine at home. I'm guessing it has something to do with the memory usage, because the machines here use about 15 MB of swap, with 20ish MB of memory free by the time I'm halfway through my 1 GB swap at home! I've cleaned up the services, and turned off things like FTP, Samba, and so on, but it hasn't made much of a difference (according to top, they weren't using much ram anyway). Kernel at labs is 2.4.25 versus 2.6.3 at home. Both use ReiserFS for /. Labs use NFS for /home, versus second ReiserFS partion at home for /home/. Any ideas? This is driving me insane. Even the CD-Rom mounts faster!
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