Re: [Pan-users] Re: compile?

[Travis]

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Subject: [Pan-users] Re: compile?


> "Travis" <address@hidden> posted
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Kurt Schilling"
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>> December 07, 2008 13:19 PM Subject: Re: [Pan-users] Re: compile?
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>> 
>>> Travis wrote:
>>>> I know I have a lot to learn and you have been most kind to try and
>>>> help me out. Over the next few days/weeks I will try and digest what
>>>> you have written and apply it to my first compile from source.
>>>> 
>>>> Thank you, Joe, David, Kurt & Duncan.
>>> 
>>> Let us know how things go. As I recall, on a PIII-866 box with 512megs
>>> of RAM, it took between 20 and 30 minutes to compile Pan 0.0133. If you
>>> have a more modern machine, the compile time will most likely be
>>> shorter.
>> 
>> The processor is an Intel Atom 1.6GHz. I will post my success or more
>> questions.
> 
> I have a similar netbook here but haven't really done "anything" with it 
> yet.  But for compiling, memory size and disk access times can be as 
> important as CPU speed, and while that PIII-8xx was more or less 
> comparable speed (slower but more powerful in some ways) and the 512 MB 
> memory should be comparable, the disk is going to be different, 
> especially if it's an SSD with its very long write times but decent read 
> and zero seek times.  Since compiling writes a lot of temp files the 
> write times could be critical.  But as I said I've really not done much 
> with mine yet so can't say what the real numbers are.  I'll be putting 
> Gentoo on it eventually, but will be compiling on my main machine, which 
> does pan in maybe five minutes (short enough it's not bothersome enough 
> to have worried about it), so the slower netbook compiling won't bother 
> me.

In Windows I can over clock to 2.008 GHz.  It has 2GB RAM and a 160 GB 5400 rpm 
HDD.
It came with a 80 GB HDD.  I installed the Asus Xandros on the original HDD 
just because I could.
I installed Ubuntu via Wubi on my netbook, current desktop and my old desktop.  
I had one of the original 700 series Eee PC's (702 8 GB SSD) but sold it when I 
got my new Eee PC.
Computers to me are just entertaining toys.  Never used one in a work situation.
-- 
Travis in Shoreline Washington