On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 11:23 PM Michael <confabul...@kintzios.com> wrote:
> On Monday, 11 September 2023 21:21:47 BST Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 10:05 PM Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> > wrote: > > > On Mon, 11 Sep 2023 21:19:27 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > > chromium has been building since 10:14, it's now 21:16 and still > going > > > > so 9 hours at least on this machine to build a browser - almost as > bad > > > > as openoffice at it's worst (regularly took 12 hours). Nodejs also > took > > > > a while, but I didn't record time. > > > > > > Chromium is definitely the worst, and strangely variable. The last few > > > compiles have taken between 6 and 14 hours. Since it takes longer than > > > everything else to build, it is usually compiling on its own, so > parallel > > > emerges aren't a factor. > > > > > > Qtwebengine is also bad, not surprising as it is a cut down Chromium. > > > Emerging world with --exclude then timing build to coincide with sleep > > > helps, although I haven't quite reached the age where I need 14 hours > of > > > sleep a day. > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Neil Bothwick > > > > > > If it isn't broken, I can fix it. > > > > Yup, that jibes with what I see. Oh well, just means that the need for > > overnight compiles did not go away haha > > > > Thanks to every one else that replied too - everyone said much the same > > thing so I figured one replay to rule them all was the best way > > > > > > Alan > > As the old saying goes, "there ain't no substitute to cubic inches". Moar > cores and moar RAM is almost always the solution, but with laptops and > older > PCs in general overnight builds soon become inevitable. Selectively > reducing > jobs and adding swap, or for packages like rust placing /var/tmp/portage > on > the disk becomes necessary. > > A solution I use for older/smaller laptops is to build binaries on a more > powerful PC and emerge these in turn on the weaker PCs. > > There's also the option of using bin alternatives where available, e.g. > google-chrome, firefox-bin, libreoffice-bin. > > Finally, there is a small scale project to provide systemd based binaries > as > an alternative to building your own: > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Experimental_binary_package_host > As it turns out this laptop is the most powerful machine I have available, my large collection of previous work laptops are getting older and older. Although, I *could* create a ginormous build host on one of the virtualization clusters at work hahaha :-) That link looks interesting, I'll check it out, thanks! -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
