On 11/09/2023 22:19, Alan McKinnon wrote:
chromium has been building since 10:14, it's now 21:16 and still going so 9 hours at least on this machine to build a browser - almost as bad as openoffice at it's worst (regularly took 12 hours). Nodejs also took a while, but I didn't record time.
What's your CPU and how much RAM? Even on my older system I had (an 4-core i5 2500K) libreoffice took like 2 hours or so to build.
What other packages have huge build times?
IIRC, dev-qt/qtwebengine is one of the heaviest when it comes to build times.
Anyway, a nice way to cut down on build times is to build on tmpfs. To do that however with heavy packages like that, I had to upgrade to 32GB RAM. There was a large price drop in the memory market a couple months ago, so I snatched a 32GB DDR4 3600 kit (2x16GB) for like 80€. So now with plenty of RAM, I configured a 14GB tmpfs in /var/tmp/portage. I never hit swap when emerging.
