From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13753 invoked by uid 1002); 25 Jul 2003 18:52:22 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 8010 invoked from network); 25 Jul 2003 18:52:17 -0000 From: Werner Van Belle Reply-To: werner.van.belle@vub.ac.be Organization: Vrije Universiteit Brussel To: Svyatogor , gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 20:51:48 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <200307251956.27193.ripat@xs4all.nl> <1059160421.2178.5.camel@sergey.swdevelopers.net> In-Reply-To: <1059160421.2178.5.camel@sergey.swdevelopers.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="koi8-r" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: clearsigned data Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200307252052.09728.werner.van.belle@vub.ac.be> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] compile time statistics X-Archives-Salt: fa3d14cd-3448-4196-b26e-1e83996e360b X-Archives-Hash: 977de4b712053c817ea426fee6534cfa =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hmmm, Altough it's a nice proposal that would be really usefull, I still think th= ere=20 are some serious problems involved. Compilation time is non lineair.=20 Depending on how much cache, how much memory, how fast your hard-disk is,=20 what your bus-speed is and above all, what the user is doing at the same ti= me=20 while upgrading his machine will seriously impact compilation time. All of= =20 these factors are very difficult to take into account.=20 With kind regards,=20 Werner,- On Friday 25 July 2003 21:13, Svyatogor wrote: > I was actually thinking of making this proposal :) > Just a small comment. In LFS you can find estimate compile time in SBU > (Standart Bash Units - time required to compile bash). It would be nice > if we could include this kind of information into ebuild. Any ideas on > whether that would be possible to do? > > =F7 ?? 25.07.2003, =D7 20:56, Rutger Lubbers =D0=C9=DB=C5=D4: > > People, > > > > This mail is about a question. The question is "how long does package > > x.y.z take to compile on my machine?" Now my idea is, we have the > > emerge.log file and can obtain some data from it, so we might "predict" > > that compile time for that user. > > > > To get a fairly good prediction I need data. To get data I perhaps need= a > > prediction. Which needs data. So at the moment I don't know what to do. > > > > One part I have finished right now, I can get the compile times from the > > emerge.log and submit it to a central database (see > > http://ripat.xs4all.nl). Some "basic" querying I can do too. > > > > My questions to you is: > > - would this be a nice feature to have? > > - would you be willing to provide me with compile time statistics? > > - do you have any hints / ideas what I can do to get this from a no > > dataless project to a data having project? > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Rutger Lubbers > > > > > > -- > > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list =2D --=20 Werner,- =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/IXxZxiU3uL/NdUYRAsAAAJ9wW5Euyazi7SAHeXi8ZXClQQG2ewCgjMHU WQ//loK+G6T/DpBToJF0gPI=3D =3DbWGf =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list