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From: Alan McKinnon <alan@××××××××××××××××.za>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] sys-fs/device-mapper
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 16:31:38
Message-Id: 200611131819.52335.alan@linuxholdings.co.za
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] sys-fs/device-mapper by James Colby
1 On Monday 13 November 2006 17:31, James Colby wrote:
2 > All -
3 >
4 > I am trying to emerge sys-fs/device-mapper on an older piece of
5 > hardware (AMD Duron 800, with 512Mb of Ram). The package has been
6 > compiling for something like 8 hours already. Is this normal? It
7 > seems like an awfully long time to me. As a comparison, I was able
8 > to compile the kernel in about 15 minutes. If this isn't normal, any
9 > ideas as to what the problem could be. I didn't see anything on
10 > bugs.gentoo.org.
11
12 That looks awfully long to me:
13
14 alan@nazgul /usr/share/downloads/onyx $ genlop -t device-mapper
15 * sys-fs/device-mapper
16
17 Mon Jul 24 00:56:16 2006 >>> sys-fs/device-mapper-1.02.07
18 merge time: 10 seconds.
19
20 Sun Sep 3 19:30:30 2006 >>> sys-fs/device-mapper-1.02.07
21 merge time: 20 seconds.
22
23 Thu Sep 21 12:54:37 2006 >>> sys-fs/device-mapper-1.02.09
24 merge time: 20 seconds.
25
26 Mon Sep 25 18:51:05 2006 >>> sys-fs/device-mapper-1.02.10
27 merge time: 42 seconds.
28
29 Wed Nov 8 16:51:18 2006 >>> sys-fs/device-mapper-1.02.12
30 merge time: 45 seconds.
31
32 > In case it matters my make.conf looks like this:
33 >
34 > CFLAGS="-mtune=athlon -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer"
35
36 make that -O2
37 -O3 uses some insane optimizations which in the grand scheme of things
38 don't make much difference speed-wise but can be very unstable
39
40 > CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
41 > CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
42 > USE="-arts -ipv6 apache2 mysql pam ssl xml xml2 -gnome -gtk alsa oss
43 > nvidia -cups mmx -ldap -kde -qt -kde nptl nptlonly"
44 --
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