compile farm distro

[Kris Bodenheimer]

Jonathan Hutchins wrote:

>>I've been trying to
>>install Gentoo + KDE on my 550MHz notebook and 'emerge kde' has taken
>>over 30 hours.  
Yep, on slow machines, or even worse, slow I/O machines (laptops) gentoo 
is a boar.  HENCE, compile farm already running...
> 
> 
> Well duh.  That's what Gentoo is all about, proudly grinding out the compile 
> times so you can say your a Real Linux Man.  If you're not into suffering for 
> the cause, it's not for you.*

HMM, ok, that may be true, BUT, there are some high quality solutions to 
the issue that are easy to implement.  Having a functional compile farm 
takes a long time to construct.  Which, is why I am happy to lend mine 
to the cause.  I can get a gentoo build done in a few hours, just by 
using distcc, and enough computers.

Now, the catch is, is that on a laptop, there are TONS of other limiting 
factors, not the least of which are the probably horrible hard drive 
spinning away, low memmory, slow memory access... etc. etc. etc.  The 
list goes on.  30 hours is a REALLY long time, I would bet there is 
something else wack.  I would say you should try to get ide DMA working 
using hdparm, it may save you a TON of time.  Kris