Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

["Norman Rieß" <norman@smash-net.org>]

Am 08/18/11 09:11, schrieb Matthew Finkel:
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 12:45 AM, Norman Rieß <norman@smash-net.org
> <mailto:norman@smash-net.org>> wrote:
> 
>     Am 08/17/11 13:44, schrieb Joost Roeleveld:
>     > On Wednesday, August 17, 2011 09:59:50 AM Peter Humphrey wrote:
>     >> On Tuesday 16 August 2011 02:48:30 Michael Mol wrote:
>     >>> How does everybody here use Gentoo? For personal use? Production
>     use?
>     >>> For
>     >>> server, desktop or embedded roles? What's your most interesting
>     setup
>     >>> or use case?
>     >>
>     >> Since you ask: my workstation runs Gentoo. My old workstation
>     sometimes
>     >> does; at other times it's experimenting with other distributions.
>     >>
>     >> I have a midget server on the LAN (Atom N270) which runs Gentoo,
>     but it's
>     >> too underpowered to do all the compiling itself, so it
>     NFS-exports its
>     >> packages directory to my workstation, where I have a 32-bit
>     chroot set up as
>     >> an image of the Atom. Emerging is done here, making the packages
>     available
>     >> for installation on the Atom. This is a cumbersome operation though.
>     >>
>     >> The Atom serves web, time, squid proxy, dns, cups and mysql to
>     the LAN. It
>     >> runs http-replicator and rsyncd to keep a local portage tree for
>     the other
>     >> boxes. I'd like it to serve mail too, but I've never managed to
>     set that up.
>     >
>     > Putting email on the Atom using IMAP might not be the best option.
>     IMAP can be
>     > quite heavy on resources on the server-side.
>     >
>     > I use a quad-core AMD for my server.
>     >
>     > --
>     > Joost
>     >
> 
>     Depends on how you use it. I have an IMAP-Server running on Atom which
>     holds my email archive. Also depends on the Software you use for the
>     IMAP-Server.
>     I can not see why a N270 could not serve a moderate amount of users
>     on IMAP.
> 
>     Concerning the "Atom not fast enough for compiling"-Problem. I compiled,
>     run and update a Gentoo System on a AMD Geode LX, which is way less
>     powerfull and it works just fine.
> 
>     Norman
> 
> 
> Just out of curiosity, how long does it take to compile gcc?
> 
> - Matt

Atom:

genlop -t sys-devel/gcc-4.4.5
 * sys-devel/gcc

     Sat Feb 26 13:06:08 2011 >>> sys-devel/gcc-4.4.5
       merge time: 1 hour, 12 minutes and 27 seconds.

     Wed Mar 23 23:01:12 2011 >>> sys-devel/gcc-4.4.5
       merge time: 1 hour, 10 minutes and 22 seconds.


Geode:

 genlop -t sys-devel/gcc-4.4.5
 * sys-devel/gcc

     Sat Feb 26 19:11:36 2011 >>> sys-devel/gcc-4.4.5
       merge time: 7 hours, 17 minutes and 41 seconds.

     Fri Mar 25 05:51:21 2011 >>> sys-devel/gcc-4.4.5
       merge time: 7 hours, 17 minutes and 2 seconds.


Norman