On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 9:48 AM, John Covici <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 20 Nov 2016 09:25:58 -0500, > Harry Putnam wrote: >> >> Rich Freeman <[email protected]> writes: >> >> > IMO over-committing CPU isn't actually THAT bad. The CPU obviously >> > gets divided n ways, but that's as far as it goes. There isn't that >> > much overhead switching between VMs (though there certainly is some). >> >> [...] >> >> Thanks for the fuller picture and putting in the time to write it. >> >> > > > On my i7 machine with 16g of ram, webkit-gtk has got to take 4/5 hours > to compile. This is using an ssd. >
Are you building in a tmpfs? That would perform better than an ssd and would be much less wear on your flash besides. Of course, some packages do take a while to build. I don't notice as much now that I do most of my building from cron, but it can be painful when you have dependency chains or soname changes. -- Rich
