laptop hard drives are uselessly slow for the disk intensive IO of building.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Chuck Payne <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:terrorpup@gmail.com">terrorpup@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div></div><div class="h5">On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Jeff Hubbs <<a href="mailto:jhubbslist@att.net">jhubbslist@att.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> On 8/10/10 12:49 PM, Chuck Payne wrote:<br>
>> Geentoo is cool, but the liast person I saw do an emerge it took him<br>
>> three days. That was on P4 with 1G of memory.<br>
>><br>
>> Pup<br>
> That's kind of a loaded statement - there are orders of magnitude<br>
> difference between, say, "emerge gzip" (42 seconds start-to-finish on<br>
> 8x2GHz x86_64 Xeon, most of it spent in configure) and "emerge -uDe<br>
> world", which simply recompiles everything even if there aren't any<br>
> updates. If the machine in question were running X w/ KDE or Gnome, it<br>
> might have well been hating life at anything more than MAKEOPTS="-j1"<br>
> and there is a lot more to build if it had been an X machine. Emerging<br>
> gcc is rather RAM-intensive also so if whatever that guy was doing<br>
> involved building gcc or g++ then it was going to take some time,<br>
> especially if his swap partition was on the same disk as everything else<br>
> and he was also running X.<br>
><br>
> If the building time involved with new Gentoo instances (which in<br>
> practice tend to be build-once/copy-many/rebuild-at-leisure) or the<br>
> occasional update of big apps isn't something you can absorb by doing<br>
> other work, making phone calls, a trip to the loo, having a moment of<br>
> quiet reflection, etc., then Gentoo's not for you.<br>
><br>
> Although I will say that if your work does involve emerging and<br>
> unmerging packages as a matter of day-to-day routine, even just a small<br>
> distcc rig and ccache makes a huge difference. With distcc, parallelism<br>
> seems to matter more than sheer clock speed. I try to have some x86 and<br>
> x86_64 machines set up at home and at work for distcc purposes.<br>
><br>
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</div></div>My co-worker is a big Gentoo user when get got his new laptop he did<br>
his emerge to get installed and up and running and it took three days.<br>
I believe he did a lot of custom coding. But, I am not kidding on how<br>
long it took because he did get in trouble for not having a laptop for<br>
that time.<br>
<br>
Pup<br>
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