Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vm still grinding away at compiling webkitgtk-2.14.2

2016-11-21 Thread John Covici
On Mon, 21 Nov 2016 03:57:02 -0500, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > [1 ] > On Mon, 21 Nov 2016 08:47:13 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > > On my i7 machine with 16g of ram, webkit-gtk has got to take 4/5 hours > > > to compile. This is using an ssd. > > > > That vindicates my choice of an NVMe

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vm still grinding away at compiling webkitgtk-2.14.2

2016-11-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 21 Nov 2016 08:47:13 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On my i7 machine with 16g of ram, webkit-gtk has got to take 4/5 hours > > to compile. This is using an ssd. > > That vindicates my choice of an NVMe SSD for this box, which is also an > i7 but with 32GB. Genlop shows it takes

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vm still grinding away at compiling webkitgtk-2.14.2

2016-11-21 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 20 Nov 2016 09:48:07 John Covici wrote: > On Sun, 20 Nov 2016 09:25:58 -0500, > > Harry Putnam wrote: > > Rich Freeman 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vm still grinding away at compiling webkitgtk-2.14.2

2016-11-20 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sunday, November 20, 2016 09:06:26 AM Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 8:45 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: > > "J. Roeleveld" writes: > >> Also, overcommitting CPUs has a bad influence on performance, > >> especially if the host wants to use all

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vm still grinding away at compiling webkitgtk-2.14.2

2016-11-20 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 10:32:25AM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Rich Freeman writes: >> >> > Are you building in a tmpfs? That would perform better than an ssd >> > and would be much less

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vm still grinding away at compiling webkitgtk-2.14.2

2016-11-20 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 10:32:25AM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > Rich Freeman writes: > > > 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

[gentoo-user] Re: vm still grinding away at compiling webkitgtk-2.14.2

2016-11-20 Thread Harry Putnam
Rich Freeman writes: > 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vm still grinding away at compiling webkitgtk-2.14.2

2016-11-20 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 9:48 AM, John Covici wrote: > On Sun, 20 Nov 2016 09:25:58 -0500, > Harry Putnam wrote: >> >> Rich Freeman writes: >> >> > IMO over-committing CPU isn't actually THAT bad. The CPU obviously >> > gets divided n ways, but that's as

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vm still grinding away at compiling webkitgtk-2.14.2

2016-11-20 Thread John Covici
On Sun, 20 Nov 2016 09:25:58 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > > Rich Freeman 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

[gentoo-user] Re: vm still grinding away at compiling webkitgtk-2.14.2

2016-11-20 Thread Harry Putnam
Rich Freeman 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vm still grinding away at compiling webkitgtk-2.14.2

2016-11-20 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 8:45 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: > "J. Roeleveld" writes: > >> Also, overcommitting CPUs has a bad influence on performance, >> especially if the host wants to use all cores as well. > > That is what I asked advice about. What do you

[gentoo-user] Re: vm still grinding away at compiling webkitgtk-2.14.2

2016-11-20 Thread Harry Putnam
"J. Roeleveld" writes: > On November 20, 2016 6:21:40 AM GMT+01:00, Alan McKinnon > wrote: >>On 20/11/2016 02:59, Harry Putnam wrote: >>> An emerge of webkitgtk-2.14.2 has been running for over 2hrs. I >>> wonder if I am starving my vbox vm of

[gentoo-user] Re: vm still grinding away at compiling webkitgtk-2.14.2

2016-11-20 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan McKinnon writes: > On 20/11/2016 02:59, Harry Putnam wrote: >> An emerge of webkitgtk-2.14.2 has been running for over 2hrs. I >> wonder if I am starving my vbox vm of gentoo with 3GB or ram. >> >> Top's cpu usage is fluxuating between 45% and 99% during this