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On an 1.7 GHz Ahtlon Xp with 768 MB of SDR133, it takes about 8 hours |
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if X is *not* running and there are no other emerges nor anything else |
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that is CPU-/RAM-hunry. Basically, turn off X and your research |
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programs for up to 12 hours. nice -n -20 can shave your emerge time |
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even more, at the risk of decreased system responsiveness. |
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The only thing that takes a day or two is emerge -uvD --with-bdeps=y world . |
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Gentoo requires patience, with the reward of fast code. I actually |
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enjoy waiting for compiles to finish, so much so that I install from |
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stage 1 if possible and only use stage 3 if I have to get Gentoo |
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working in a short amount of time. At least the compiling makes a very |
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good screensaver :D |
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On 10/8/08, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 6:28 PM, Andrey Vul <andrey.vul@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>> On 10/8/08, Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinrichs@××××××.de> wrote: |
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>>>> > > Am Mittwoch 08 Oktober 2008 04:23:35 schrieb ext Kevin O'Gorman: |
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>>>> > > Why did you choose Gentoo, then? Only by compiling OOo, you will |
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>>>> get one |
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>>>> > > that fits into _your_ system. |
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>>> |
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>>> For me, the reasons are |
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>>> 1. I wanted Gentoo for the toolchain and the things I'm developing. |
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>>> These are the things where I wanted support tailored to my 2xXeon (4 |
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>>> core) system. |
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>>> |
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>>> 2. I've been using Oo-bin because it worked, and efficiency didn't |
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>>> matter because |
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>>> I don't even use it every week. Compiling it takes a day or so and |
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>>> accordingly it was spending more time compiling than I was spending |
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>>> using it. Now it no longer works and I'll probably use Word on my |
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>>> wife's laptop. But I won't like it. |
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>> Your system is 4 core and it takes a day to compile OOo? Something |
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>> sounds very off. |
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>> Honestly, my 3 year old laptop which has 1 core and a 1.8 GHz Turion |
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>> with 2GB of DDR333 takes 4 hours to compile. |
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>> What are you running apart from emerge (e.g. X, firefox, etc.)? |
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>> |
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>> |
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>> -- |
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>> Andrey Vul |
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> This is a 6-year-old desktop, 1.6 GHz, 2 GB original DDR memory. |
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> |
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> I run KDE and sometimes a bunch of compute-bound research tasks of my |
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> own creation. |
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> I haven't compiled it in so long I may be confusing it with gnome or |
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> KDE or any of that collection of things that monopolize my machine |
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> from time to time. A couple of years back I went to 'bin' on things I |
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> don't use much, and did some trimming on modular packages like KDE to |
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> cut down my emerge times. There are just so many times when I want to |
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> break in to fool with some hardware and I'm loath to do it during an |
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> emerge. I just think of these measures as saving me days of emerging |
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> from time to time. |
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> |
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> ++ kevin |
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> |
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> -- |
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> Kevin O'Gorman, PhD |
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Andrey Vul |
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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. |
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Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? |
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A: Top-posting. |
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Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? |