Am 08/18/11 09:11, schrieb Matthew Finkel:
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 12:45 AM, Norman Rieß <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
> Am 08/17/11 13:44, schrieb Joost Roeleveld:
> > On Wednesday, August 17, 2011 09:59:50 AM Peter Humphrey wrote:
> >> On Tuesday 16 August 2011 02:48:30 Michael Mol wrote:
> >>> How does everybody here use Gentoo? For personal use? Production
> use?
> >>> For
> >>> server, desktop or embedded roles? What's your most interesting
> setup
> >>> or use case?
> >>
> >> Since you ask: my workstation runs Gentoo. My old workstation
> sometimes
> >> does; at other times it's experimenting with other distributions.
> >>
> >> I have a midget server on the LAN (Atom N270) which runs Gentoo,
> but it's
> >> too underpowered to do all the compiling itself, so it
> NFS-exports its
> >> packages directory to my workstation, where I have a 32-bit
> chroot set up as
> >> an image of the Atom. Emerging is done here, making the packages
> available
> >> for installation on the Atom. This is a cumbersome operation though.
> >>
> >> The Atom serves web, time, squid proxy, dns, cups and mysql to
> the LAN. It
> >> runs http-replicator and rsyncd to keep a local portage tree for
> the other
> >> boxes. I'd like it to serve mail too, but I've never managed to
> set that up.
> >
> > Putting email on the Atom using IMAP might not be the best option.
> IMAP can be
> > quite heavy on resources on the server-side.
> >
> > I use a quad-core AMD for my server.
> >
> > --
> > Joost
> >
>
> Depends on how you use it. I have an IMAP-Server running on Atom which
> holds my email archive. Also depends on the Software you use for the
> IMAP-Server.
> I can not see why a N270 could not serve a moderate amount of users
> on IMAP.
>
> Concerning the "Atom not fast enough for compiling"-Problem. I compiled,
> run and update a Gentoo System on a AMD Geode LX, which is way less
> powerfull and it works just fine.
>
> Norman
>
>
> Just out of curiosity, how long does it take to compile gcc?
>
> - Matt
Atom:
genlop -t sys-devel/gcc-4.4.5
* sys-devel/gcc
Sat Feb 26 13:06:08 2011 >>> sys-devel/gcc-4.4.5
merge time: 1 hour, 12 minutes and 27 seconds.
Wed Mar 23 23:01:12 2011 >>> sys-devel/gcc-4.4.5
merge time: 1 hour, 10 minutes and 22 seconds.
Geode:
genlop -t sys-devel/gcc-4.4.5
* sys-devel/gcc
Sat Feb 26 19:11:36 2011 >>> sys-devel/gcc-4.4.5
merge time: 7 hours, 17 minutes and 41 seconds.
Fri Mar 25 05:51:21 2011 >>> sys-devel/gcc-4.4.5
merge time: 7 hours, 17 minutes and 2 seconds.
Norman
