On Thursday, 9 February 2012 22:02:29 UTC+8, firebird wrote:
>
> Thanks Jason/Volker 
>
> Will persevere... Type of computer is I5-2320 Quadcore... Not on your 
> list of known processors. 
> Will try and find how to save tuning information after next test. 
> I am getting the message that compilation will take many hours. So I 
> will give it 12-24 hours. 
> I guess that I am compiling many of the packages to which there is a 
> SAGE interface as well. 
>
> For me and others, how long is a typical compiliation 


On your kind of hardware it should take less than an hour.
The problem you see most probably comes from your processor not being 
well-supported
by Atlas, http://math-atlas.sourceforge.net/
(or not being well-supported by the version of Atlas shipped with Sage)

However, you can try setting
SAGE_ATLAS_ARCH=Corei7,SSE3,SSE2,SSE1
as this looks pretty close to what you have.
(see http://www.sagemath.org/doc/installation/source.html)

Or even install Ubuntu Atlas package and use
SAGE_ATLAS_LIB as described in 
http://www.sagemath.org/doc/installation/source.html
 
The latter should be pretty quick!

and how big 
> should the install.log file be? 
> Are there any sample install.logs that I could check out? 
>
> Finally, is there a Ubuntu 11.10 version pending? 
> If not, I would be happy to go through a few extra loops and try to 
> publish mine! 
>
> FireBird 
>
>
> On Feb 8, 6:27 pm, Jason Grout <[email protected]> wrote: 
> > On 2/8/12 10:39 AM, firebird wrote: 
> > 
> > > Thanks for the prompt response, but it is barely credible... 
> > 
> > Atlas will sometimes do tuning, which means that it will run the same 
> > program lots of times with different values in order to ascertain 
> > exactly what parameters to use to get the fastest linear algebra. 
> > Sometimes this tuning takes hours and hours, if atlas doesn't already 
> > know about your CPU and computer configuration.  The important thing 
> > then is to save that tuning information for the next time you compile 
> > atlas, or even better, submit that tuning information back upstream to 
> > the atlas project. 
> > 
> > How long did you let it go before terminating?  What kind of computer 
> > are you compiling on? 
> > 
> > Thanks, 
> > 
> > Jason

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