On Sunday 19 Feb 2012 12:57:51 Meik Frischke wrote: > Am Sonntag, 19. Februar 2012, 12:26:57 schrieb Mick: > > On Sunday 19 Feb 2012 11:45:25 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 12:58:35 +0200, Thanasis wrote: > > > > > [root@hactar ~ 0]% genlop -t libreoffice > > > > > > > > > > * app-office/libreoffice > > > > > > > > > > Wed Feb 15 10:23:58 2012 >>> app-office/libreoffice-3.5.0.3 > > > > > > > > > > merge time: 40 minutes and 52 seconds. > > > > > > > > Impressive. What's your hardware configuration, Neil? > > > > > > Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600K CPU @ 3.40GHz with 16GB RAM. > > > > Hmm ... I've got a 1st generation i7 on my laptop and it is no-where near > > that fast. :-( > > > > Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU Q 720 @ 1.60GHz with 4G RAM. > > > > Sun Jan 29 21:47:46 2012 >>> app-office/libreoffice-3.4.5.2 > > > > merge time: 1 hour, 34 minutes and 43 seconds. > > > > Is it just down to the CPU or are you running /var/tmp/portage on some > > turbo- charged fs? > > IO does really slow down the compilation progress a lot. Having > PORTAGE_TMPDIR on tmpfs saves about half an hour (compared to reiserfs on > a 7200rpm disk) for me : > Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz > Thu Feb 16 17:42:35 2012 >>> app-office/libreoffice-3.5.0.3 > merge time: 50 minutes and 39 seconds. > > With 4GB Ram thats not an option for you though...
My /var partition is on ext4. My CPU is admittedly slower, but even so I wouldn't think that it would take more than _twice_ as long as Neil's. -- Regards, Mick
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