On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 01:34:55PM +1300, Michael Cree wrote: > On 26/11/11 17:05, Bob Tracy wrote: > >>> Might have to have you crank out an official "-O0" or > >>> "-O1" build of QT4 so I can release the hold on 25 binary packages. > >> > >> OK, I'll take a look at that one. I presume you mean qt4-x11? > > > > That would be the one. I'd be interested in the build time for it as > > well. If your iceweasel build time is indicative, I'm guessing you > > might complete qt4-x11 in about 15 hours as a single-process build. > > Guess again. > > >From the end of the build log: > > Build needed 03:42:54, 3254948k disc space
Shazam! Dat be some kinda fast machine, dere. > I must admit I am a bit stunned by how quick that was. It may well be > that the build for qt4-x11 detects the number of CPUs and builds in > parallel for part of the build (though I didn't realise that happening > the very occassional time I checked on the build), or maybe your build > was utterly crippled by virtual memory switching. Let's go with that last one. I was pretty sure I had more physical RAM in my PWS 433au than I evidently do: /proc/meminfo implies I've got somewhere in the vicinity of 576 MB, at least 512 MB of which is what I purchased for the beast back in 2005 for US$96 (4x128MB). Swap is approx. 1.5 GB, so you may safely assume the poor machine was thrashing quite a bit. Just to get qt4-x11 to build required configuring an additional GB of swap as a file within one of the filesystems that had enough free space. Not exactly a good recipe for efficient performance. The 433au supports up to 1.5 GB of PC66 RAM in six slots, so I'll try to find 6x256 MB sticks if I can find them somewhere at a good price. Back in 2005, my vendor of choice was http://www.kahlon.com, and they only had the 512 MB kit (4x128MB). > Or maybe I cocked up > the configuration file and most of it has been left unbuilt. It did > produce 50 deb files. That sounds like the correct count. I installed 25 of the packages, and most of what I *didn't* install was debug packages. > I have not yet uploaded to unreleased. Think I'll check it over a > little more. If you have the time/inclination, install "kdm" and see if you can use it to login without it segfaulting on you. "kdm" supports other session types besides plasma-desktop, so you don't have to install the whole KDE4 infrastructure to do the test. --Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
