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Hello, Daniel. |
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On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 07:49:49 -0700, Daniel Frey wrote: |
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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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Just for comparison, my new Ryzen 1700X box, with 16 GB RAM, and two 500 |
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GB SSDs connected to the PCI bus (courtesy of Samsung) in a RAID-1, |
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compiled libreoffice for the first time in around 25 minutes. (It |
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actually took ~35 minutes including 40-odd other packages.) This was |
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with /var/tmp on a RAM disk. |
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If money isn't tight, treat yourself! There's something nice about only |
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being able to drink one cup of coffee whilst LO is building, and XFCE4 |
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starting in less than a second is also quite gratifying. |
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I built my new box partly because the old one from 2009, though still |
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working, is not going to be working for ever, and the announcement of |
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the Ryzen processors finished the prompting. On this machine, building |
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LO takes around two and a half hours. |
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> Dan |
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |