On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Nick Cunningham <n...@monkeydust.net> wrote: > > > 2009/1/20 Alejandro <elcorreode...@gmail.com> >> >> >> 2009/1/20 Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerar...@googlemail.com> >>> >>> On Dienstag 20 Januar 2009, Grant Edwards wrote: >>> > I'm in the process of installing Gentoo on a rather old >>> > machine. It's an old HP Pavilion with a 450MHz Celeron >>> > Mendocino and 256MB of PC133 SDRAM. I'm using an nVidia PCI >>> > FX6200 video board instead of the i810 on-board chip, and it's >>> > got a decent hard drive (160GB). >>> > >>> > I was wondering if there were any particular tips/tricks for >>> > getting the best performance out of such a machine. It's to be >>> > used for basic word processing and a few games. Hopefully the >>> > nVidia 6200 will allow OpenGL to run fast enough for something >>> > like TuxRacer. >>> > >>> > I chose XFCE for the desktop along with both Abiword and >>> > OpenOffice. I probably should have installed OOo from a binary >>> > package, but I decided to build it just to see how long it >>> > would take (so far it's at about 26 hours and counting). >>> >>> if you don't need any special features, kde+koffice needs less ram than >>> xfce+openoffice. >>> >>> And installing ooo from source is unsupport. The build breaks all the >>> time and >>> you don't get anything from it. All it does is starting a second faster. >>> It >>> does not need less ram nor does it run faster. >>> >>> >> >> "installing ooo from source is unsupport" How is this? Maybe you >> missundertand i think he run emerge openoffice and not openoffice-bin > > I believe he means that generally speaking, trying to build OO from source > on a low-end (and especially low RAM) machine is ill-advised and can often > be the cause of build failures as OO is well known to require a lot of RAM > and hdd space while it compiles. > > - Nick >
I know it needs 5gb+ of tmpdir space, but compiling it with 256mb may be futile :)
