On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Ben-Nes Michael wrote: > Hi All > > How much time emerge suppose to run when installing kde from fresh ? ( X already > installed )
>From fresh - it took me 1.5 days, and I'm using Celeron [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 384MB of SDRAM. > > currently its finished 3/4 of the tasks and it took 19 hours :( > > im emerging on Celeron 1800MHZ / 256MB RAM / HD 5400 RPM > > Is it logical for such mechine or maybe i have problems with the system ? Very logical. Don't forget that the main idea of Gentoo is optimization. If you check GCC's flags, you will see that -march=pentium4, -mmmx, -msse and -msse2 (among many others) are probably being used while it compiles (if you configured your Gentoo distribution properly). This lets gcc using your computer's architecture (Pentium 4) and its set of assembler commands (MMX and its extensions - SSE and SSE2). This kind of optimization has a tradeoff during the compilation. Due to extra features that it can use (new ways of numbers calculations using MMX set of commands, and more), it takes more CPU cycles to do the compilation (so your compilation takes much more time), so don't let that bother you. In the end you get an optimized product which works smoother and in general faster on your computer - so it is worth the waiting. In the meantime - enjoy the show :) Good luck. > > Cheers ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
