Re: [gentoo-user] Re: long compiles

2023-09-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 13 Sep 2023 21:20:20 - (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > About a year ago I finally gave up building Chromium and switched to > www-client/google-chrome. It got to the point where it sometimes took > longer to build Chromium than it did for the next version to come out. That's why I run

[gentoo-user] Re: long compiles

2023-09-13 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2023-09-13, Kristian Poul Herkild wrote: > Nothing compares to Chromium (browser) in terms of compilation times. On > my system with 12 core threads it takes about 8 hours to compile - which > is 4 times longer than 10 years ago with 2 core threads ;) About a year ago I finally gave up

Re: [gentoo-user] long compiles

2023-09-13 Thread Kristian Poul Herkild
Hi. Nothing compares to Chromium (browser) in terms of compilation times. On my system with 12 core threads it takes about 8 hours to compile - which is 4 times longer than 10 years ago with 2 core threads ;) Libreoffice takes a few hours, but less than half of chromium. Nothing gets close

Re: [gentoo-user] long compiles

2023-09-13 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 13 September 2023 13:41:00 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday, 13 September 2023 12:50:20 BST Wols Lists wrote: > > On 13/09/2023 12:28, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > A thought on compiling, which I hope some devs will read: I was tempted > > > to > > > push the system hard at

Re: [gentoo-user] long compiles

2023-09-13 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 13 September 2023 12:50:20 BST Wols Lists wrote: > On 13/09/2023 12:28, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > A thought on compiling, which I hope some devs will read: I was tempted to > > push the system hard at first, with load average and jobs as high as I > > thought I could set them. I've

Re: [gentoo-user] long compiles

2023-09-13 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Wed, Sep 13, 2023 at 12:50:20PM +0100 schrieb Wols Lists: > Bear in mind a lot of systems are thermally limited and can't run at full > pelt anyway ... Usually those are space-constrained systems like mini PCs or laptops. Typical Desktops shouldn’t be limited; even the stock CPU coolers

Re: [gentoo-user] long compiles

2023-09-13 Thread Wols Lists
On 13/09/2023 12:28, Peter Humphrey wrote: A thought on compiling, which I hope some devs will read: I was tempted to push the system hard at first, with load average and jobs as high as I thought I could set them. I've come to believe, though, that job control by portage and /usr/bin/make is

Re: [gentoo-user] long compiles

2023-09-13 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 12 September 2023 22:08:49 BST Wol wrote: > There's all sorts of tricks, some work for some people, others work for > others. Quite so. Here I have two swap partitions: 8GB priority 20 on NVME and 50GB priority 10 on SSD. I've never noticed either of them being used, so I suppose I