Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles

[Uwe Thiem <uwix@iway.na>]

On 31 January 2007 13:02, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 January 2007 16:06, Uwe Thiem wrote:

> > What are the specs of your box?
>
> Dell Latitude D810
> 2GHz Centrino
> 2GB Ram
> 80G SATA
> 2.6.19-suspend2-r1

Odd. My 2.8GHz Pentium 4 takes *far* longer to compile OO, something close to 
10h, though I haven't really timed it.

>
> But, OOo is a well known resource hog that really stresses a machine when
> compiling, so I don't think it makes a useful measure of anything. And
> KDE-meta isn't much better these days either. Yesterdays sync brought in
> 3.5.6 and 3 or 4 other bits and pieces, which I started at 1am this
> morning. It's just finished now at 1pm - 12 hours!

KDE is in so far better as it doesn't forbit parallel compiling - as OO does. 
So I can use distcc and let all my boxes contribute. That brings the compile 
time of KDE down a lot. Unfortunately, that isn't possible with OO.
 
>
> But having said that, I've noticed that this kernel gives really slow disk
> IO which I haven't managed to track down. It feels less than half the speed
> I got on 2.6.18.*, and my three year old desktop with a similar world runs
> 'emerge -avuNDt world' twice as quick.

I am still with 2.6.18. Too many problems with 19.

Uwe

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