Re: [gentoo-user] Re: long compiles

2023-09-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 13 Sep 2023 21:20:20 - (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > About a year ago I finally gave up building Chromium and switched to > www-client/google-chrome. It got to the point where it sometimes took > longer to build Chromium than it did for the next version to come out. That's why I run

[gentoo-user] Re: long compiles

2023-09-13 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2023-09-13, Kristian Poul Herkild wrote: > Nothing compares to Chromium (browser) in terms of compilation times. On > my system with 12 core threads it takes about 8 hours to compile - which > is 4 times longer than 10 years ago with 2 core threads ;) About a year ago I finally gave up

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: long compiles

2023-09-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 12 Sep 2023 21:01:48 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > But anyways, this is not really about how to deal with long compiles, I > was asking what current packages take a long time after a 5 year > absence. > > The answer is what it was always - browsers and libreoffice. I do recall > icu

[gentoo-user] Re: long compiles

2023-09-12 Thread Nuno Silva
On 2023-09-12, Alan McKinnon wrote: [...] > But anyways, this is not really about how to deal with long compiles, I was > asking what current packages take a long time after a 5 year absence. > > The answer is what it was always - browsers and libreoffice. I do recall > icu being a bit of a beast

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: long compiles

2023-09-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 11:19 AM Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > 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

[gentoo-user] Re: long compiles

2023-09-12 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/09/2023 23:21, Alan McKinnon wrote: Yup, that jibes with what I see. Oh well, just means that the need for overnight compiles did not go away haha Ever since I added the following to my make.conf: PORTAGE_NICENESS=19 PORTAGE_IONICE_COMMAND="sh -c \"schedtool -D \${PID} && ionice -c 3 -p

[gentoo-user] Re: long compiles

2023-09-12 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
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.