It's been compiling for two days straight...
It's been compiling for two days straight...
For the curious ones the machine is a 2001 IBM Thinkpad T22 with 20Gb of HDD, 256 Mb of RAM and an Intel Pentium 3 @ 900MHz.
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emerge --jobs 8 --load-average 8
instead of justmake -j8
. Not gonna help much on a 900MHz pentium, but it has really sped up my build times.17 0 ReplyMe: Use threads!
Single core CPU: Do I look like a loom to you?34 0 ReplyI have to set -j1 because of low ram. Yes I can just increase swap space to "add more RAM" but it will be swap on a 2001 HDD so it's slow as hell
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