On Thu, 1 Feb 2007 19:43:00 +0100 Ralf Stephan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > 2GHz Centrino > > > 2GB Ram > > > 80G SATA > > > 2.6.19-suspend2-r1 > > > > Odd. My 2.8GHz Pentium 4 takes *far* longer to compile OO, > > something close to 10h, though I haven't really timed it. frankly, in my experience pentium 4s are absolutely horrendous processors. They're just very, very slow. Their clock speed is great but ... i don't know. My compusa-tech friend assures me that it's the 'quad-pumped' architecture that makes my p-4 celeron 2.4 perform about as well as a pentium III. I have'nt done any benchmarks either, though. > Memory is essential for compiling, so a guess would be that you > have less than 1 GB RAM. Maybe even 1GB is not enough. > > > ralf > as long as you don't have -pipe in your cflags, i don't think more than 512 megs is essential for compiling. In fact, i don't think even that is essential. -pipe puts all temp files in ram. Without -pipe, the files are stored on disk (/var/tmp/, i think, for emerges) and therefore you don't need a lot of memory. Of course, linux caches extremely aggressively so if the ram's there, it'll be used. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
