Duncan wrote:
Kurt Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Thu, 31 Jul
2008 14:10:54 -0400:
As I type this, the other machine is going through the throes of Make.
Umm... perfect opportunity to boast a bit. =8^)
That's where a faster system is nice! =8^) Dual dual-core Opteron 290s
(older tech now, but top of the line 2.8 GHz), compiling into tmpfs for
scratch-space so all those temp files never leave memory (all 8 gigs
worth of it), with the sources on a 4-way RAID-0 and the system on the
same 4-spindles RAID-6.
With ccache shortcutting the compilation of stuff that's unchanged,
compiling pan is a while-you-wait job of a couple minutes, not that I've
actually timed it. =8^)
I can even recompile my entire system, 674 packages, in a day or so, and
that's not fully parallel optimized compiling yet. (There's still a bug
in portage that kicks off the parallel merging after the first hundred
packages or so, out of 674, so 500+ are done a single package at a time,
tho where the single package can parallelize, it still does that.)
That's alright my friend. I'd be compelled to boast abit too. But, I've
managed to muddle my way through the configuration, make and
checkinstall. So I now have a newly built package of Pan installed on my
venerable workstation that's no where as fast or well equipped. If I had
to try recompiling my entire system, mebbe I'd be through by the first
snowfall of the winter. <G>
All the best,
Kurt
_______________________________________________
Pan-users mailing list
Pan-users@nongnu.org
http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
