On Mon, 2012-04-23 at 16:34 -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Pierre Labastie wrote: > > Le 23/04/2012 22:34, Bruce Dubbs a écrit : > >> Bruce Dubbs wrote: > >> > >>> It appears there are multiple ways to isolate the programs we need in > >>> Chapter 6 to /tools. For us, the simpler the better. I think we ought > >>> to do a little more testing, but it's looking good. > > >> I'm still in the initial build, but the toochain seems to be OK. One > >> problem with gcc-4.7 is that the tests take a *very* long time. On my > >> system > >> which is not really slow, it took over an hour and a half to run the tests. > > > How much memory on your system? Experimenting on a virtual machine, > > I found that ~1,4Gb were needed for gcc 4.7 tests, otherwise swap was used. > > That's a good thought, but I have 2G and it's a real system, not virtual. > The > build is still continuing and I have only 36 total processes running.
If it's any consolation, Bruce, it takes my machine approx 2.5 hours to run GCC's testsuite. That's much better than it used to be; when I was constrained to running a build under a VM, it used to take approx 6 hours! Using the test_summary output, what's your average time per test case? Regards, Matt. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
