On Monday 02 January 2006 20:08, Dale wrote: > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > >As the owner of a dual-Opteron 275 system, I can say they they are very > >nice. An emerge -e world (700+ packages) only takes 24 hours, during > >which the system is totally usable (full-screen video + 5.1 audio does not > >stutter). > > No offense but my main rig does about that. It's just a AMD 2500+ with > 1GB of ram, running at 2GHz though. I was thinking about building me a > new rig but if I won't see any more improvement than that, I'll spend my > money somewhere else, maybe some glasses for a start. O_O > > Dale > > Still sleepy, going back to bed. -_- <---- < closed eyes > LOL > > -- > To err is human, I'm most certainly human. > > I have four rigs: > > 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now > two 80GB hard drives. Named Smoker 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD > 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. Named Swifty 3: Home built; > Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 224MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. Named > Pokey 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram > and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. Named Putput > > All run Gentoo Linux, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are > set up as servers.
It'd be good and very helpful if we could see a "emerge -pe world > some.log.file" output from both systems. I've got an old k6-2 550mgz that finishes "emerge -e world" before some of my faster rigs, only because it's a server and not a desktop like it's faster cousins. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
