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

[Dan Farrell <dan@spore.ath.cx>]

On Thu, 1 Feb 2007 19:43:00 +0100
Ralf Stephan <ralf@ark.in-berlin.de> wrote:

> > > 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.

frankly, in my experience pentium 4s are absolutely horrendous
processors.  They're just very, very slow.  Their clock speed is great
but ... i don't know.  My compusa-tech friend assures me that it's the
'quad-pumped' architecture that makes my p-4 celeron 2.4 perform about
as well as a pentium III.  I have'nt done any benchmarks either,
though.

> Memory is essential for compiling, so a guess would be that you
> have less than 1 GB RAM. Maybe even 1GB is not enough.
> 
> 
> ralf
> 
as long as you don't have -pipe in your cflags, i don't think more than
512 megs is essential for compiling. In fact, i don't think even that is
essential.  -pipe puts all temp files in ram.  Without -pipe, the files
are stored on disk (/var/tmp/, i  think, for emerges) and therefore you
don't need a lot of memory.  Of course, linux caches extremely
aggressively so if the ram's there, it'll be used.  
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