Re: [gentoo-dev] 1.4 beta seems very slow to build

[Ryan Phillips]

On Fri, 9 Aug 2002 09:06:47 +0000
Tony Clark <tclark@×××××.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I really can't explain this very well, but when I ran "emerge kde" to build
> the desktop it hadn't finished after 12 hours.  I started the emerge under a
> chroot env.  It seemed to be running ok to begin with.  I went to bed and in
> the morning found that it was not completed.  It was strange as it was using
> basically no CPU time at all by this stage (after about 8 hours).  I rebooted
> the machine into the 1.4 system and finished the build.  It did run a lot
> better.  Not really sure why as I did try and emerge another program on the
> system (gentoo1.2 partition) and things seemed to be runnig fine.  I am
> building it on an SMP athlon box with xp1900s fitted.  There was no sign of
> memory leakage etc.(256M RAM).  When I built kde in gentoo 1.2 on a
> uniprocessor machine a couple of weeks ago it took about 5 hours all up from
> memory.
> Anyone with any thoughts on what could be causing the slowdown?

I haven't benchmarked any of this... but the 3.x series of compilers
take longer to compile and optimize.  Perhaps this is the issue.

-ryan