Hello, Daniel. On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 07:49:49 -0700, Daniel Frey wrote:
[ .... ] > For the frontend replacement I think I'm going to jump to one of the > Ryzen products. I don't need ThreadRipper there, but one of their other > processors will work. The backend will get a faster processor but it's > part of my distcc cluster. > I think Dale posted a libreoffice build speed, mine isn't so bad either, > but I'm using RAID and distcc: > $ genlop -t libreoffice > * app-office/libreoffice > Tue Aug 1 08:45:28 2017 >>> app-office/libreoffice-5.2.7.2 > merge time: 1 hour, 22 minutes and 53 seconds. > I *really* hate the climate nowadays of toss it out when it acts up/gets > slow. Just for comparison, my new Ryzen 1700X box, with 16 GB RAM, and two 500 GB SSDs connected to the PCI bus (courtesy of Samsung) in a RAID-1, compiled libreoffice for the first time in around 25 minutes. (It actually took ~35 minutes including 40-odd other packages.) This was with /var/tmp on a RAM disk. If money isn't tight, treat yourself! There's something nice about only being able to drink one cup of coffee whilst LO is building, and XFCE4 starting in less than a second is also quite gratifying. I built my new box partly because the old one from 2009, though still working, is not going to be working for ever, and the announcement of the Ryzen processors finished the prompting. On this machine, building LO takes around two and a half hours. > Dan -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
