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[ILUG] Distro for an old Pii PC

[ILUG] Distro for an old Pii PC

Ruairí Newman ruairi at tech-mad.org
Wed Aug 10 16:33:22 IST 2005


On Wed, August 10, 2005 16:39, Brendan Arthurs said:
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 04:13:52PM +0100, Ruairí Newman wrote:
>> >From ~12 hours down to 40 minutes?  Was the machine using up all of
>> it's
>> RAM and swap?  Possibly adding more swap might have dropped the compile
>> time?  How much swap did you have allocated anyway?
>
> Could it be that on the second attempt nothing was actually compiled
> since everything had already been built the first time around?

I had thought of that, but 40 minutes to just run through the tree and
check that everything had been built seemed excessive, so I discounted it.

R.


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