carl_the_llama@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 10 months agoIt's been compiling for two days straight...lemmy.worldimagemessage-square30fedilinkarrow-up1428arrow-down110file-text
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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.
minus-squarecadekat@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up17·10 months agoI recently discovered emerge --jobs 8 --load-average 8 instead of just make -j8. Not gonna help much on a 900MHz pentium, but it has really sped up my build times.
minus-squaremagikmw@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up34·10 months agoMe: Use threads! Single core CPU: Do I look like a loom to you?
minus-squarecarl_the_llama@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·10 months agoI 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
I recently discovered
emerge --jobs 8 --load-average 8instead of justmake -j8. Not gonna help much on a 900MHz pentium, but it has really sped up my build times.Me: Use threads!
Single core CPU: Do I look like a loom to you?
I 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