* Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles
@ 2007-02-01 20:41 99% ` Dan Farrell
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From: Dan Farrell @ 2007-02-01 20:41 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
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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