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From: John Covici <covici@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vm still grinding away at compiling webkitgtk-2.14.2
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2016 14:48:17
Message-Id: m3fummjjh4.wl-covici@ccs.covici.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: vm still grinding away at compiling webkitgtk-2.14.2 by Harry Putnam
1 On Sun, 20 Nov 2016 09:25:58 -0500,
2 Harry Putnam wrote:
3 >
4 > Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> writes:
5 >
6 > > IMO over-committing CPU isn't actually THAT bad. The CPU obviously
7 > > gets divided n ways, but that's as far as it goes. There isn't that
8 > > much overhead switching between VMs (though there certainly is some).
9 >
10 > [...]
11 >
12 > Thanks for the fuller picture and putting in the time to write it.
13 >
14 >
15
16
17 On my i7 machine with 16g of ram, webkit-gtk has got to take 4/5 hours
18 to compile. This is using an ssd.
19
20 --
21 Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is:
22 How do
23 you spend it?
24
25 John Covici
26 covici@××××××××××.com

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