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On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 7:41 AM, <mad.scientist.at.large@××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> Ok, i'm starting to understand the install instructions, a steeper curve |
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> than i expected but still way easier than LFS. |
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> So, on a dual core athlon II 6000 (two cores, 3ghz) roughly how long will |
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> stage3 take to compile, roughly? |
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With emphasis on the "roughly", I seem to recall that it took me |
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several days to compile everything I wanted on initial system |
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installation on machines of similar capabilities. But that includes |
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significantly more than stage3, with long build time stuff like |
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firefox, chromium, and libreoffice accounting for at least half that |
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time. |
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> next month i'll be setting up a compiler farm with 3 other, similiar |
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> machines which should help, will also be upgrading cpus to 4 or 6 core, and |
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> have one machine that can upgraded for phenom and one i can update to |
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> opteron, according to the board makers (it just needs a different bios). |
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> If i had the supporting bios any of my machines could upgrade to nearly any |
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> AMD socket 2 or 3+ chip |
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You seem to want to see how fast you can go, and that's certainly an |
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interesting exercise. I've been there, too, but over the years have |
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gradually retreated to a very non-aggressive compile setup. I've used |
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distcc, made use of multiple cores, parallel make, etc. but have |
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abandoned them all over time. It is quite possible to slow things |
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down with improper setup, or with a local network with limited |
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capabilities, so it takes a little time and experimentation to tune |
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things properly. And it's possible to speed things up substantially, |
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too. However, in my experience, speedups obtained this way can and do |
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expose bugs in the build process. For me the personal keyboard time I |
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invested in fixing things that broke in parallel wasn't worth the |
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speedups I achieved. I, too, come from the punchcard and paper tape |
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era, so even the very cheapest modern cpus run circles around the |
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multi-million $ parallel supercomputers I used to buy and use. I now |
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prefer just starting an emerge, and letting it take its merry old |
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time. Gentoo's gotten good enough over the years that this almost |
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invariably works. I'm not criticizing your speedup plans - by all |
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means, have fun - but if you're just starting out in Gentoo, be aware |
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that these speedups aren't necessarily a slam-dunk. |
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John Blinka |