On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 7:53 AM, Joshua Murphy <poiso...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Peter Humphrey wrote: > >> > >> Hello list, > >> > >> How's this for sheer persistence and grit? > >> > >> $ genlop -c > >> > >> Currently merging 321 out of 368 > >> > >> * www-client/chromium-10.0.648.204 > >> > >> current merge time: 11 hours, 41 minutes and 9 seconds. > >> ETA: any time now. > >> > >> This is my Atom N270 LAN server box. > >> > >> > I remember compiling LFS on P100. It took a week to compile X ;) at the end I had Xinerama working ;-P > > > > I got a very old Compaq rig with quad 200Mhz CPUs and 128Mbs of ram. I > have > > always wondered how long it would take to compile OOo on that thing. 12 > > hours to compile a browser does take patience. I hope you don't have a > > power failure right at the end. o_O > > > > How long does it take to open it when it gets done? Seconds? Minutes? > > > > Dale > > > > :-) :-) > > > > > > Assuming a reasonable 1GB ram on the box (pretty well standard to low > with an Atom), and considering what my netbook does (the same single > core 1.6GHz with HT turned on for responsiveness in my case), about > 2-3 seconds... but then I'm on a little SSD too. I should admit my > netbook's running Debian at the moment, though. Didn't want to abuse > the SSD too much with writes, and it's tedious to install things > through an intermediary system all the time. The fullsize laptop, when > it gets its rebuild over the next week (it's been a windows 2k3 server > development system lately) > > I do a lot of compiling on my laptop using Catalyst for embedded. I upgraded my RAM to 8GB (2x4GB = 90$ ebay). I mount /var/tmp as tmpfs. Thats how I keep my SSD ;) Kfir > -- > Poison [BLX] > Joshua M. Murphy > >
