On 31 January 2007 13:02, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 30 January 2007 16:06, Uwe Thiem wrote:
> > What are the specs of your box? > > Dell Latitude D810 > 2GHz Centrino > 2GB Ram > 80G SATA > 2.6.19-suspend2-r1 Odd. My 2.8GHz Pentium 4 takes *far* longer to compile OO, something close to 10h, though I haven't really timed it. > > But, OOo is a well known resource hog that really stresses a machine when > compiling, so I don't think it makes a useful measure of anything. And > KDE-meta isn't much better these days either. Yesterdays sync brought in > 3.5.6 and 3 or 4 other bits and pieces, which I started at 1am this > morning. It's just finished now at 1pm - 12 hours! KDE is in so far better as it doesn't forbit parallel compiling - as OO does. So I can use distcc and let all my boxes contribute. That brings the compile time of KDE down a lot. Unfortunately, that isn't possible with OO. > > But having said that, I've noticed that this kernel gives really slow disk > IO which I haven't managed to track down. It feels less than half the speed > I got on 2.6.18.*, and my three year old desktop with a similar world runs > 'emerge -avuNDt world' twice as quick. I am still with 2.6.18. Too many problems with 19. Uwe -- A fast and easy generator of fractals for KDE: http://www.SysEx.com.na/iwy-1.0.tar.bz2 Proof of concept of a TSP solver for KDE: http://www.SysEx.com.na/epat-0.1.tar.bz2 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
