On an 1.7 GHz Ahtlon Xp with 768 MB of SDR133, it takes about 8 hours if X is *not* running and there are no other emerges nor anything else that is CPU-/RAM-hunry. Basically, turn off X and your research programs for up to 12 hours. nice -n -20 can shave your emerge time even more, at the risk of decreased system responsiveness. The only thing that takes a day or two is emerge -uvD --with-bdeps=y world . Gentoo requires patience, with the reward of fast code. I actually enjoy waiting for compiles to finish, so much so that I install from stage 1 if possible and only use stage 3 if I have to get Gentoo working in a short amount of time. At least the compiling makes a very good screensaver :D
On 10/8/08, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 6:28 PM, Andrey Vul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On 10/8/08, Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> > > Am Mittwoch 08 Oktober 2008 04:23:35 schrieb ext Kevin O'Gorman: >>>> > > Why did you choose Gentoo, then? Only by compiling OOo, you will >>>> get one >>>> > > that fits into _your_ system. >>> >>> For me, the reasons are >>> 1. I wanted Gentoo for the toolchain and the things I'm developing. >>> These are the things where I wanted support tailored to my 2xXeon (4 >>> core) system. >>> >>> 2. I've been using Oo-bin because it worked, and efficiency didn't >>> matter because >>> I don't even use it every week. Compiling it takes a day or so and >>> accordingly it was spending more time compiling than I was spending >>> using it. Now it no longer works and I'll probably use Word on my >>> wife's laptop. But I won't like it. >> Your system is 4 core and it takes a day to compile OOo? Something >> sounds very off. >> Honestly, my 3 year old laptop which has 1 core and a 1.8 GHz Turion >> with 2GB of DDR333 takes 4 hours to compile. >> What are you running apart from emerge (e.g. X, firefox, etc.)? >> >> >> -- >> Andrey Vul > > This is a 6-year-old desktop, 1.6 GHz, 2 GB original DDR memory. > > I run KDE and sometimes a bunch of compute-bound research tasks of my > own creation. > > I haven't compiled it in so long I may be confusing it with gnome or > KDE or any of that collection of things that monopolize my machine > from time to time. A couple of years back I went to 'bin' on things I > don't use much, and did some trimming on modular packages like KDE to > cut down my emerge times. There are just so many times when I want to > break in to fool with some hardware and I'm loath to do it during an > emerge. I just think of these measures as saving me days of emerging > from time to time. > > ++ kevin > > -- > Kevin O'Gorman, PhD > > -- Andrey Vul A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
