On 09/03/2011 03:43, tora - Takamichi Akiyama wrote: > Hi, > >> On 8 March 2011 15:11, tora - Takamichi Akiyama <t...@openoffice.org >> <mailto:t...@openoffice.org>> wrote: >>> cd $SRC_ROOT >>> dmake > >> and wait for a minutes, not hours. > > On 2011/03/09 4:07, Knut Olav Bøhmer wrote: >> Which worked for me :) >> Well, I'm doing this on a virtual macine it took about 30 minutes. I don't >> know why it's so slow. > > Oh, sorry! I meant that wait for minutes until building instsetoo_native > starts. > > Taking about 30 minutes to build both your language and English versions of > OOo is probably normal.
well, normal if you build on windows, which seems to have a hamster in a wheel where real OSes have a highly optimized file system implementation; unfortunately the hamster easily gets tired ;) > Some tips: > - Disable unnecessary background services. > Search for windows vista disable services like that. *especially* true for virus scanners and the like. if you use one, try to create an exception for your OOo tree so it won't slow your builds too much. > - Monitor the CPU usage. > It should keep at the level of almost 100% during building OOo. > If not, look into the bottleneck. this is true for a build from scratch, but if you have already built almost everything then your CPU won't be busy, it's all IO. > - Utilize a Solid-State Drive (SSD) and put virtual machines on it. > > - and more... lots of RAM helps... also we're hoping that once everything is migrated to the gbuild system, the rebuild with a single make process will be a bit faster. -- "Television? The word is half Greek and half Latin. No good will come of this device." -- Charles Prestwich Scott, 1936. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
