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From: Kfir Lavi <lavi.kfir@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 22:43:23
Message-Id: BANLkTimWb5_aH=o1L8pTQmd6ActDrWLRnQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat! by Joshua Murphy
1 On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 7:53 AM, Joshua Murphy <poisonbl@×××××.com> wrote:
2
3 > On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
4 > > Peter Humphrey wrote:
5 > >>
6 > >> Hello list,
7 > >>
8 > >> How's this for sheer persistence and grit?
9 > >>
10 > >> $ genlop -c
11 > >>
12 > >> Currently merging 321 out of 368
13 > >>
14 > >> * www-client/chromium-10.0.648.204
15 > >>
16 > >> current merge time: 11 hours, 41 minutes and 9 seconds.
17 > >> ETA: any time now.
18 > >>
19 > >> This is my Atom N270 LAN server box.
20 > >>
21 > >>
22 >
23 I remember compiling LFS on P100. It took a week to compile X ;) at the end
24 I had Xinerama working ;-P
25
26
27 > >
28 > > I got a very old Compaq rig with quad 200Mhz CPUs and 128Mbs of ram. I
29 > have
30 > > always wondered how long it would take to compile OOo on that thing. 12
31 > > hours to compile a browser does take patience. I hope you don't have a
32 > > power failure right at the end. o_O
33 > >
34 > > How long does it take to open it when it gets done? Seconds? Minutes?
35 > >
36 > > Dale
37 > >
38 > > :-) :-)
39 > >
40 > >
41 >
42 > Assuming a reasonable 1GB ram on the box (pretty well standard to low
43 > with an Atom), and considering what my netbook does (the same single
44 > core 1.6GHz with HT turned on for responsiveness in my case), about
45 > 2-3 seconds... but then I'm on a little SSD too. I should admit my
46 > netbook's running Debian at the moment, though. Didn't want to abuse
47 > the SSD too much with writes, and it's tedious to install things
48 > through an intermediary system all the time. The fullsize laptop, when
49 > it gets its rebuild over the next week (it's been a windows 2k3 server
50 > development system lately)
51 >
52 > I do a lot of compiling on my laptop using Catalyst for embedded.
53 I upgraded my RAM to 8GB (2x4GB = 90$ ebay).
54 I mount /var/tmp as tmpfs.
55 Thats how I keep my SSD ;)
56
57 Kfir
58
59 > --
60 > Poison [BLX]
61 > Joshua M. Murphy
62 >
63 >

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Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat! Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>