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

[Alan McKinnon <alan@linuxholdings.co.za>]

On Wednesday 31 January 2007 14:22, Uwe Thiem wrote:
> 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.

Intuition tells me that on my machine emerging OOo must do a lot of 
stuff my machine is fast at, and relatively little that it's slow at. I 
know for a fact it's got a nippy cpu and lots of ram, but disk IO is 
much slower than it ought to be.

Also, my times come from genlop, and I may well have moved between home 
and office networks, and I can't guarantee that both networks have ntp 
servers exactly synced

> > 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.

kde-meta also runs ./configure something like 300 times :-) which is 
very disk intensive and my machine sucks at that

alan
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