On 8/24/05, Willie Wong <wwong@princeton.edu> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 08:30:11PM +0000, Fernando Meira wrote:
> > Oh.. and by the way, how reliable is this prediction?
> > (...)
> > [ebuild N ] sys-apps/hdparm-5.9
> > [ebuild N ] sys-libs/pwdb-0.62
> >
> > Estimated update time: 6 hours, 7 minutes.
> >
> > All system in 6h? It is something like 120 packages..
> >
> 
> What's the speed of your box? I recently did an emerge --emptytree
> world on my 1.6G Pentium M laptop. It had 446 packages done in less
> than 29 hours (I say less than because if would run long stretches at
> a time and stop after failed downloads here and there because of
> wireless problems... for all I know it could have been sitting there
> waiting for me to fix my wireless router for a couple of hours or
> more).
> 
> So if you have a comparably fast system, with not too many useflags
> enabled, I'd say that 120 packages in 6 hours is quite possible.


I have a P4-2.4GHz laptop. 
I forgot to say that the estimation time was made by genlop. And was quite 
wrong! It took something like 11h to compile 112 packages, (though I've 
interrupted while compiling gcc-3.3.6.. so it had to restart it anew). From 
this, I don't know if I should trust genlop anymore.. or is there something 
to configure so that it is more accurate?

Just for the record, the migration to gcc-3.4.4 went just fine.. until now 
at least. :)