On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 10:25:45AM -0700, G?zim Hoxha wrote: > > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 09:38:36AM -0700, G?zim > > Hoxha wrote: > > > I?ve got a 1400Mhz AMD Athlon computer with > > 256RAM, > > > and it?s been compiling from 8pm last night an is > > > still compiling today [10:35am], I don?t know > > what?s > > > going on. Even the gentoo installation didn?t take > > > this long! > > > This could be because I?m doing from the kde > > konsole... > > > > Why should that matter? > > Well...doesn?t it take memory to run kde?!
Is memory showing up as a limiter? Is the system paging a lot? Sure, a modern GUI is a memory pig, but much of it is paged out if you're not keeping it busy. I doubt your compiler is starving. Try running "top"... how do the numbers compare between the VIRT and RES columns? My guess is you'll find that they're identical for your compiler processes - they're getting all the resident memory they're asking for. As for the other performance issue - the cost of sending your stdout to a terminal emulator running under X instead of a raw console... I'm pretty sure that cost is lost in the noise. The openoffice build is taking a long time because it's a huge chunk of software. Nathan Meyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
