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On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 2:04 PM, Frank Peters <frank.peters@×××××××.net> wrote: |
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> On Mon, 30 Mar 2015 12:15:55 -0700 |
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> Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> Yesterday I was emerge -DuN @world clean. It took hours due to Gentoo |
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>> decisions about multilib stuff. |
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> Is it still necessary to be using multilib? |
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> I've been using pure AMD64 for so long I tend to forget that |
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> 32-bit stuff still exists. |
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> Frank Peters |
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Hi Frank, |
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Honestly, I really don't know and figure the answer is probably no, |
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but it was when I set the machine up this way 5 or so years ago. Even |
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today I still see messages from things like Virtualbox drivers saying |
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they are using 32-bit modes, but what do I know? When emerge threw all |
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this stuff at me Sunday I figured I had no reason to break a machine |
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that has been working well so I let it do everything it wanted to do. |
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I don't have any problems with them getting rid of emulation libraries |
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and having everything built into the packages. I just wasn't prepare |
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for the time it required yesterday. |
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If I was to build a machine from scratch today I'd certainly |
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investigate the question more closely but with an i7 980x, 24GB & |
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about 5TB of storage I have no plans on new hardware at this time. |
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Even with 3 Win 7 VMs running I seldom get above about 40% CPU usage. |
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I get close to running out of DRAM at times so I'm careful. My disk |
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subsystem is too slow but I've talked about that in the past. I just |
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haven't done much about it. |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |
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