Re: [gentoo-user] content of /usr/portage/distfile

2006-05-26 Thread Alex
Alex wrote: Now I'm emerging -e world with -Os. When it is finished, I'll mail you the results. Hi, now I have a -Os-system and it isn't faster. So now I'll emerge the whole system again, but with -O3. Alex -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] content of /usr/portage/distfile

2006-05-25 Thread Alex
Allan Gottlieb wrote: You have to do experiments. It depends heavily on your application mix. Yes, that would be the best, but I'm wondering how, because e.g. time bzip2 -9 foobar wouldn't be helpfull. So now I've switched to -Os and soon I can test, if it's a real difference. Thank you!

Re: [gentoo-user] content of /usr/portage/distfile

2006-05-25 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Thu, 25 May 2006 10:40:26 + Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allan Gottlieb wrote: You have to do experiments. It depends heavily on your application mix. Yes, that would be the best, but I'm wondering how, because e.g. time bzip2 -9 foobar wouldn't be helpfull. So now I've switched to

Re: [gentoo-user] content of /usr/portage/distfile

2006-05-25 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Philip Webb wrote: My experience is that 'eclean' is not efficient at removing things, so I've gone back to removing out-of-date distfiles by hand. Not even 'eclean-dist --destructive' is enough? Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] content of /usr/portage/distfile

2006-05-25 Thread Alex
Allan Gottlieb wrote: At Thu, 25 May 2006 10:40:26 + Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allan Gottlieb wrote: You have to do experiments. It depends heavily on your application mix. Yes, that would be the best, but I'm wondering how, because e.g. time bzip2 -9 foobar wouldn't be helpfull.

Re: [gentoo-user] content of /usr/portage/distfile

2006-05-25 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Thu, 25 May 2006 18:21:39 + Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allan Gottlieb wrote: At Thu, 25 May 2006 10:40:26 + Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allan Gottlieb wrote: You have to do experiments. It depends heavily on your application mix. Yes, that would be the best, but I'm

[gentoo-user] content of /usr/portage/distfile

2006-05-24 Thread JC Denton
Hi! May be it is a stupid question, but can I remove the content of /usr/portage/distfile/ without problems? This file has a size of 1.5 GB ! I would like to have some space back ;) JC Mails löschen war gestern: Yahoo! Mail jetzt mit 1GB kostenlosem Speicher .

Re: [gentoo-user] content of /usr/portage/distfile

2006-05-24 Thread Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
On Wednesday, 24 May 2006 23:56, JC Denton wrote: Hi! May be it is a stupid question, but can I remove the content of /usr/portage/distfile/ without problems? This file has a size of 1.5 GB ! I would like to have some space back ;) JC Yes you may safely remove anything that you no

Re: [gentoo-user] content of /usr/portage/distfile

2006-05-24 Thread Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales
I think you meant /usr/portage/distfiles, right? Yes, you can remove them. They are the source archives of the packages you've installed. But, if you need to reemerge any of your packages, you'll have to download it again. PS.: JC Denton is from Deus Ex? On 5/24/06, JC Denton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] content of /usr/portage/distfile

2006-05-24 Thread Ptitjack
JC Denton a gentiment tapote: Hi! May be it is a stupid question, but can I remove the content of /usr/portage/distfile/ without problems? This file has a size of 1.5 GB ! I would like to have some space back ;) JC

Re: [gentoo-user] content of /usr/portage/distfile

2006-05-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 24 May 2006 16:26:43 +0200 (CEST), JC Denton wrote: May be it is a stupid question, but can I remove the content of /usr/portage/distfile/ without problems? This file has a size of 1.5 GB ! I would like to have some space back ;) Yes you can, but it may mean you have to download

Re: [gentoo-user] content of /usr/portage/distfile

2006-05-24 Thread JC Denton
Yes! I think it is a great game.Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: I think you meant /usr/portage/distfiles, right? Yes, you can removethem. They are the source archives of the packages you've installed.But, if you need to reemerge any of your packages, you'll have

Re: [gentoo-user] content of /usr/portage/distfile

2006-05-24 Thread znx
Hi, There is a utility called eclean which is meant for the purpose .. http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Free_up_disk_space_in_Gentoo Hope this helps Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] content of /usr/portage/distfile

2006-05-24 Thread Alex
Hi, znx wrote: http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Free_up_disk_space_in_Gentoo Using CFLAGS=-Os or CFLAGS=-O2 is much more effective on a desktop system and can shave off more than 30% of the size. This is because larger binaries (like the HUGE ones produced by -O3) take longer to load, and

Re: [gentoo-user] content of /usr/portage/distfile

2006-05-24 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 24 May 2006 20:52:21 + Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, znx wrote: http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Free_up_disk_space_in_Gentoo Using CFLAGS=-Os or CFLAGS=-O2 is much more effective on a desktop system and can shave off more than 30% of the size. This is because larger

Re: [gentoo-user] content of /usr/portage/distfile

2006-05-24 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/24/06, Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Using CFLAGS=-Os or CFLAGS=-O2 is much more effective on a desktop system and can shave off more than 30% of the size. This is because larger binaries (like the HUGE ones produced by -O3) take longer to load, and occupy more RAM. Is that

Re: [gentoo-user] content of /usr/portage/distfile

2006-05-24 Thread Alex
Allan Gottlieb wrote: Often the bigger problem with large binaries is that their working sets exceeds the sizes of the L1 and (possibly) L2 caches. Well, I'm using -O3 and I have 1Mb L2, do you think I should migrate to -Os? Richard Fish wrote: the real deciding factor was that it took a

Re: [gentoo-user] content of /usr/portage/distfile

2006-05-24 Thread Philip Webb
060524 znx wrote: There is a utility called eclean which is meant for the purpose .. http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Free_up_disk_space_in_Gentoo My experience is that 'eclean' is not efficient at removing things, so I've gone back to removing out-of-date distfiles by hand. --

Re: [gentoo-user] content of /usr/portage/distfile

2006-05-24 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 24 May 2006 23:24:50 + Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allan Gottlieb wrote: Often the bigger problem with large binaries is that their working sets exceeds the sizes of the L1 and (possibly) L2 caches. Well, I'm using -O3 and I have 1Mb L2, do you think I should migrate to -Os?