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On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 05:33:14PM +0000, Fernando Meira wrote: |
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> I would say that most of the emerged packages were emerged before.. but |
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> maybe not that much so that genlop could be accurate. Also, a new compiler |
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> was being used.. no idea how much can that change the performance. |
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That might. -shrug- |
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> Ok.. so I'll get better estimations the more times I update my system. |
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Genlop actually just monitors /var/log/emerge.log |
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and the estimated times comes from, as I said, averaging the times |
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from past emerges. So you don't really need to have genlop installed |
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before hand or used it before for it to gather data. |
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> Great!! That was in fact the first time I've used genlop. It's quite |
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> interesting to be able to predict how much something will take to emerge. |
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It's like weather prediction: you will be 80% correct if you guess the |
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weather tomorrow is the same as today. Same spirit with genlop. |
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> For what you said, "is it worth it just sitting here reading a book or |
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> should I just go to bed", would it be possible to check an active emerge for |
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> the estimated time left? That would tell you what you should do... does |
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> genlop do that? |
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Technically, genlop -c should show the currently compiling package and |
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estimate time left. (And if it has been compiling longer than the |
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average time, it would say: Any Time Now.) |
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BUT!!! It seems that there is a bug with genlop and newer versions of |
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portage because some issues with a sandbox lockfile. Search for |
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"genlop sandbox" on bugs.gentoo.org for more info. In any case, for |
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the time being, until the bug is fixed, genlop -c will never detect an |
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active emerge. So that's too bad. |
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Though... if you are talking about, for example, emerge world, then |
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genlop won't be able to tell you how long until EVERYTHING is done. It |
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can give you an estimate on how long it will be until the current |
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compiling package is done. |
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"I assume you've all done stationary phase integrals...right?" |
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~DeathMech, S. Sondhi. P-town PHY 205 |
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