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OK, I know my laptop is quite old, or at least Intel thinks so, but emerging |
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chromium is now taking *much* longer than it ever did: |
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Tue Apr 24 11:55:49 2018 >>> www-client/chromium-66.0.3359.117 |
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merge time: 1 day, 16 minutes and 28 seconds. |
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I'm currently emerging chromium-66.0.3359.139, which I will be surprised if it |
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takes less time. Six months ago or so I went through a patch where a chromium |
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emerge would chew up all of my 4G RAM and then start thrashing the swap |
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partition (4.2G) endlessly. At some point I had to set up a secondary swap |
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space, because chromium would fail to emerge when swap ran out. In addition I |
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started limiting the number of jobs (max and average) to stop it consuming all |
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my memory. |
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Since a couple of versions ago I no longer needed to use any of these manual |
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interventions. Now chromium emerges without consuming all my RAM and hardly |
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any swap either. However, as you can see above it takes more than a day(!) to |
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complete. In a comparison a quad-core AMD which compiles wholly in RAM, |
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emerged the last version in 8 hours, 53 minutes and 41 seconds. |
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Is there anything I can do with the existing laptop and its limited resources |
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to speed up chromium's emerge? |
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Regards, |
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Mick |