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On 08/29/2017 08:09 PM, R0b0t1 wrote: |
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> On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 12:07 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> Rich Freeman wrote: |
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>> Isn't it amazing how efficient and fast newer computers are? It's |
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>> almost worth the energy saving to upgrade. If a person runs their |
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>> system 24/7, that is even more reason. |
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> It's something I used to bring up in #gentoo when people would come in |
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> and ask or complain about compilation times. The amortization period |
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> for computers is generally 3 years. If you use them longer, you are |
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> (in theory) losing money relative to your competitors. |
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> As a home user, your time and energy budgets might not be so tight, |
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> but the lack of stress is worth a nice desktop for compiling your |
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> software. |
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I'm sort of on the fence for now. I bought my computer in 2008 (but an |
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expensive processor, QX9650, with 8GB of RAM, very $$$ in 2008) and it |
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still is running fine today. It still compiles reasonably quickly, as I |
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use distcc with one other computer) and am still on spinning rust, but |
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in RAID. My mythtv frontends have SSDs and every one has had the SSD |
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replaced at least once. |
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My main frontend in the living room has shown problems (hanging while |
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playing back recordings, and I mean a hard-lock... no ssh, no response |
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at all, and the backend had in its logs "where'd it go? closing |
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connection") and so I think the hardware may finally be at the end of |
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its life. That was also built in 2008. |
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I'm not going to throw a working computer out (well, recycle it) if I |
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don't have to. Power is cheap here. |
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I have concerns about the backend (Q6600) and frontend (E7500), as they |
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were both built in 2008, but the thing is, they're just as fast as I |
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remember them when built new. |
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For the frontend replacement I think I'm going to jump to one of the |
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Ryzen products. I don't need ThreadRipper there, but one of their other |
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processors will work. The backend will get a faster processor but it's |
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part of my distcc cluster. |
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I think Dale posted a libreoffice build speed, mine isn't so bad either, |
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but I'm using RAID and distcc: |
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$ genlop -t libreoffice |
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* app-office/libreoffice |
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Tue Aug 1 08:45:28 2017 >>> app-office/libreoffice-5.2.7.2 |
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merge time: 1 hour, 22 minutes and 53 seconds. |
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I *really* hate the climate nowadays of toss it out when it acts up/gets |
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slow. |
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Dan |
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