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On Thursday, 21 April 2022 17:00:04 BST Michael Orlitzky wrote: |
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> On Thu, 2022-04-21 at 08:24 -0700, cal wrote: |
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> > Do you have any other (more powerful) machines at home that you could |
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> > set up as a distcc cluster? |
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> My desktop is only slightly more powerful. I don't really mind the |
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> webkit-gtk build time since it's shared between epiphany and evolution. |
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> I just run that (and/or gcc) overnight when I need to. |
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I have an old Acer laptop with a Core 2 Duo P7550 @2.26GHz CPU and only 4G |
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RAM. It will compile everything, even rust and qtwebengine, although it may |
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take more than a day to achieve this. Hence I use a more modern PC to build |
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binaries which I then transfer and emerge on the laptop in minutes. |
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> > In addition to the usual problem packages others have called out, the |
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> > main problem I ran into was heat dissipation |
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> I leave it on top of a giant fan or near an open window, weather |
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> permitting. |
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Or, use some blocks/books to suspend it off the desk. A couple of inches may |
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be enough. Alternatively, you can buy a cooling pad. Some come with USB |
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powered fans too, which help drop the CPU temperature by another couple of |
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degrees. |