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.

  • seaQueue@lemmy.world
    901·
    1 year ago

    I’m sure the Gentoo crowd will refute this in a day or two when they’re finished compiling and can read it.

    Edit: bro, a 2001 era Thinkpad is going to take like a month to finish building everything. You can probably cross build that system faster on your phone.

    • carl_the_llama@lemmy.worldOP
      5·
      1 year ago

      Yes it would be faster but it’s my first go at Gentoo for the base install I want to stick to the handbook. As soon as the base install is done I will see how to make my good Debian machine compile the packages for the IBM. Besides, I have time.

  • rattking@lemmy.ml
    321·
    1 year ago

    *laughs in i93900k. -j 32 goes brrr!

    I kid, I kid. -j 32 actually goes kernel: Out of memory: Kill process 10665 (cc) score 666 or sacrifice child ;)

  • Jeena@jemmy.jeena.net
    20·
    1 year ago

    Back in the day, around 2005 or 2006 I did that and I had browse the internet in a text based browser for 2 days because KDE on that old machine took two days to compile.

    • JetpackJackson@feddit.de
      7·
      1 year ago

      How did it go? I’m trying to make my website more accessible by running it through w3m, so I wonder how the sites back then did.

      • Jeena@jemmy.jeena.net
        3·
        1 year ago

        It depends on the site, back then there were a lot of table-layouts which were quite fucked up in the text-only browser. Nowadays there are non of them which is good, but nowadays there are JavaScript only websites which don’t really work well. You can install a text only browser and try it out yourself.

        • JetpackJackson@feddit.de
          1·
          1 year ago

          I’m already playing around with w3m but I had no idea about that table thing, sounds rough. Thanks for the links (pun unintended)

  • cadekat@pawb.social
    15·
    1 year ago

    I 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.

  • UntouchedWagons@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I can relate. I ran gentoo for a while on a T21. I’d use my gaming pc with a q8300 to do all the compiling for it.

  • penquin@lemmy.kde.social
    3·
    1 year ago

    Serious question, how long will it take to compile the whole thing if you had a ryzen 9 maxed out or an Intel i9 or whatevet those crazy CPUs are with all top specs PC?

    • rattking@lemmy.ml
      41·
      1 year ago

      I’m running gentoo on an i9 13th gen. Regular updates don’t take long at all. I’m not really sure how long it would take to build the whole thing. I’ve never build the whole repo.Build times can vary greatly depending on how you build the package. Chromium and qtwebkit are by far the slowest packages to build. But I have lto and pgo enabled, the lto step is pretty slow and pgo causes the software to be built twice and as a joked about in my other comment, building chromium with all 32 CPU cores will eat up all 32G of ram and get OOM killed, so I build that with -j 10. so that’s not helping build time. I’ll get more ram eventually.

      • penquin@lemmy.kde.social
        2·
        1 year ago

        Is there a particular reason why you prefer Gentoo over other distros? Can’t you run a conventional distro that doesn’t need to compile? Just curious, no judgement. I know that Marcan, the dude who reverse engineered the apple M1, runs Gentoo. Always been curious as to why some folks prefer it