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Gentoo...

by Ryan Caron

Whoa, didn't mean to start a mini flame war! I think the portage system does wonders with the dependencies, and as I understand it portage is very BSD-like (I don't have any experience with BSD yet) with their package system. OK, one box boots up in 24 seconds (from GRUB menu to XDM login), and the other in 16 seconds (GRUB to CLI login). Now, thats a lot faster than default Red Hat installs, which can take minutes on a similarly capable machine. A good part of the faster bootup is that my Gentoo installation is, at least for now, much leaner than Red Hat and doesn't have to load as many daemons. But major distros like Red Hat, for compatibility sake, compile their code (or at least used to) as i386 for compatibility. Some have moved to i586. But my gentoo box is specifically compiled for the P4 with O3 compile flag. So that does speed things up a bit. Also, I run seti@home 24/7 on my personal boxes, so I never have any idle CPU percentages. On Red Hat seti@home would slow me down when I was really working the computer's resources. Haven't seen that happen yet in Gentoo. So, maybe its not the compiles that make it faster. But the capability to customize it, its inherent leanness (do I really want to install this if it takes 4 hours to compile)?, and its package system make it my linux distro of choice. Ryan Caron ACM Secretary

March 4, 2004

Re: [Wlug] DistCC

by orbitz＠ezabel.com

I have you don't any tests for over a network with latency like the internet? I'm wondering if, because the curernt distcc protocol is rather gross, one will get better compile times considering teh transfering of the files might take longer than actually compiling. On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 19:27:37 -0500 (EST) Ryan Caron <rcaron(a)WPI.EDU> wrote: > It appears that at least a couple people here are using Gentoo. I am > working on building a DistCC (Distributed C Compiling) network so that our > "emerge -u world" and Stage 1 installations go by that much quicker. It > has substantially improved my installation time - my first Stage 1 > install, which did not use Distcc took nearly 3 days (some downtime was > incurred since I had to sleep and go to class). With only 2 Pentium 4's > and 1 Pentium 3, I was able to cut that time down to about 24 hours - the > installation was on my 1.6Ghz Celeron, so you know that most of the > compiling capabilities wasn't done on that! > > If you would like to use the Distcc network I'm putting together to get > your Gentoo box running or to make emerge -u world that much quicker, all > I ask is that you please run the Distcc server on your machine as well. > The list of servers, scheduled emerge -u world times, and a script I wrote > to automatically do emerge -u world is available at: > http://www.acm.wpi.edu/~rcaron/Gentoo.shtml > > Gentoo's HOW-TO on configuring DistCC is at: > http://www.Gentoo.org/doc/en/distcc.xml > > Please email me if you have any questions or would like to contribute to > the network. > > Sincerely, > Ryan Caron > ACM Secretary > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >

March 4, 2004

Re: [Wlug] DistCC

by Zhiwei Ren

Sorry, Could you please remove me from this list. thanks Ren ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin, Eric" <MartinE(a)worc.k12.ma.us> To: "'Worcester Linux Users Group'" <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org> Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 9:12 AM Subject: RE: [Wlug] DistCC > 1) I would like to, but I'm having problems getting distcc to work (I > think). When I configure my clients, they will keep showing lines that > *distcc can't find host 192.168.0.10*, but when that client is up, I don't > get anything. I'm running gentoo on all my linux boxes, and I followed the > distcc guide. > > 2) I can't get the monitor to see anything...any help? > > 3) Are you just doing x86 or do we want to try cross compiling, or have a > few networks? I have a few x86s, a sparc64 and a ppcG3 all running gentoo. > I'm trying to get cross compiling working, but like I said, I can't see if > stuff is going or not. > > 4) I'm up for it. Share and Share alike > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ryan Caron [mailto:rcaron@WPI.EDU] > Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 7:28 PM > To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > Subject: [Wlug] DistCC > > > It appears that at least a couple people here are using Gentoo. I am > working on building a DistCC (Distributed C Compiling) network so that our > "emerge -u world" and Stage 1 installations go by that much quicker. It has > substantially improved my installation time - my first Stage 1 install, > which did not use Distcc took nearly 3 days (some downtime was incurred > since I had to sleep and go to class). With only 2 Pentium 4's and 1 > Pentium 3, I was able to cut that time down to about 24 hours - the > installation was on my 1.6Ghz Celeron, so you know that most of the > compiling capabilities wasn't done on that! > > If you would like to use the Distcc network I'm putting together to get your > Gentoo box running or to make emerge -u world that much quicker, all I ask > is that you please run the Distcc server on your machine as well. The list > of servers, scheduled emerge -u world times, and a script I wrote to > automatically do emerge -u world is available at: > http://www.acm.wpi.edu/~rcaron/Gentoo.shtml > > Gentoo's HOW-TO on configuring DistCC is at: > http://www.Gentoo.org/doc/en/distcc.xml > > Please email me if you have any questions or would like to contribute to the > network. > > Sincerely, > Ryan Caron > ACM Secretary > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > >

March 4, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Repartitioning for Installfest

by Josh Huber

"Scott Venier" <scott(a)scooter.cx> writes: > That was supposed to be off list. Bad squirrelmail. Actually, bad settings on the list server. This list preforms reply-to munging, which has caused several people in the past to accidentally reply to the list when they had intended to send a private message. I like this: http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html And this: http://cr.yp.to/proto/replyto.html wrt. building from source vs. binary packages, of course there is a tradeoff. I use Debian myself, and might consider trying something else if I actually had some measurable amount of free time to screw around with building software. I think an important part of using a distribution with binary packages is learning how to make your own. (be it RH or Debian, etc) Once you do know how, dealing with that one package which isn't built the way you like it becomes much easier. -- Josh Huber

March 4, 2004

RE: [Wlug] Repartitioning for Installfest

by Martin, Eric

For me honestly, it has to do with the fact that I got sick and tired of RedHat. I got tired of *rpm -qa | grep (some dependancy)* Do I feel like it sped things up from redhat, yeah! Do I like the fact that I've learned a ton about linux, not RedHat, yeah. (Don't get me wrong, I'm not bashing RH, its just that *I* used RPMS as way too much of a crutch.) I like that I had evolution w/o ldap support, said "oh, I must have forgotten that flag", fixed the flag, and recompilied. Portage dl'd ldap for me, I didn't have to worry about deps...that's where gentoo really takes it for me. Eric Ps, sorry for ranting on the list -----Original Message----- From: Scott Venier [mailto:scott@scooter.cx] Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 9:57 AM To: Worcester Linux Users Group Subject: Re: [Wlug] Repartitioning for Installfest Scott Venier said: > Thank you thank you thank you. > > I'm so sick of the gentoo weenies claiming that. > OK. I'll apologize for this one up front. That was supposed to be off list. Bad squirrelmail. Now for some justification so I don't seem like a total jerk. I've just read reports of using 3 days of CPU time to intall a gentoo system. My wimpy k6 system has over 98% idle cpu cycles - that's running i386 compiled debian code and a not totally trivial workload, it's a firewall, mail/web/dns server, and has a fair number of interactive users (15 as I write this, but it's still early in the day). My computer spends almost all of its time waiting for me. Any time that it doesn't spend waiting for me is spent waiting for I/O devices like disks and the network. If you want your computer to be faster, get yourself gobs of ram and run out of a ram disk. The cpu time is rarely the bottle. 3 days to save something that I'm only using 3% of... It's just not worth the hassle, imho. Scott _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

March 4, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Repartitioning for Installfest

by Scott Venier

Scott Venier said: > Thank you thank you thank you. > > I'm so sick of the gentoo weenies claiming that. > OK. I'll apologize for this one up front. That was supposed to be off list. Bad squirrelmail. Now for some justification so I don't seem like a total jerk. I've just read reports of using 3 days of CPU time to intall a gentoo system. My wimpy k6 system has over 98% idle cpu cycles - that's running i386 compiled debian code and a not totally trivial workload, it's a firewall, mail/web/dns server, and has a fair number of interactive users (15 as I write this, but it's still early in the day). My computer spends almost all of its time waiting for me. Any time that it doesn't spend waiting for me is spent waiting for I/O devices like disks and the network. If you want your computer to be faster, get yourself gobs of ram and run out of a ram disk. The cpu time is rarely the bottle. 3 days to save something that I'm only using 3% of... It's just not worth the hassle, imho. Scott

March 4, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Repartitioning for Installfest

by Scott Venier

Charles R. Anderson said: > On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 07:03:49PM -0500, Ryan Caron wrote: >> Gentoo since its so customizable, and the fact that everything is >> compiled >> from the source code speeds up the computer a fair amount. > > Placebo affect most likely. > Thank you thank you thank you. I'm so sick of the gentoo weenies claiming that. Scott

March 4, 2004

Re: [Wlug] DistCC

by Mike Frysinger

On Thursday 04 March 2004 09:12 am, Martin, Eric wrote: > 3) Are you just doing x86 or do we want to try cross compiling, or have a > few networks? I have a few x86s, a sparc64 and a ppcG3 all running gentoo. > I'm trying to get cross compiling working, but like I said, I can't see if > stuff is going or not. `emerge crossdev` `crossdev --arch=ppc -u` if there's any bugs, send em to bugzilla so i can make sure kumba fixes em :) -mike

March 4, 2004

RE: [Wlug] Repartitioning for Installfest

by Martin, Eric

Very little, I couldn't get it to work right... -----Original Message----- From: Pete Wason [mailto:rogue@hynoom.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 10:15 PM To: Worcester Linux Users Group Subject: Re: [Wlug] Repartitioning for Installfest Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Wednesday 03 March 2004 07:03 pm, Ryan Caron wrote: > >>Concerning your server, I would move to another distro. I personally >>use Gentoo, but for your applications you may want to go with Debian. >>I like Gentoo since its so customizable, and the fact that everything >>is compiled from the source code speeds up the computer a fair amount. > > > or perhaps move to fedora as that'll be the most redhat like (assuming > thats > what you want :]) Does anyone have any exp with YD? I always liked the *look* of their stuff ;-) Pete _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

March 4, 2004

RE: [Wlug] DistCC

by Martin, Eric

1) I would like to, but I'm having problems getting distcc to work (I think). When I configure my clients, they will keep showing lines that *distcc can't find host 192.168.0.10*, but when that client is up, I don't get anything. I'm running gentoo on all my linux boxes, and I followed the distcc guide. 2) I can't get the monitor to see anything...any help? 3) Are you just doing x86 or do we want to try cross compiling, or have a few networks? I have a few x86s, a sparc64 and a ppcG3 all running gentoo. I'm trying to get cross compiling working, but like I said, I can't see if stuff is going or not. 4) I'm up for it. Share and Share alike -----Original Message----- From: Ryan Caron [mailto:rcaron@WPI.EDU] Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 7:28 PM To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org Subject: [Wlug] DistCC It appears that at least a couple people here are using Gentoo. I am working on building a DistCC (Distributed C Compiling) network so that our "emerge -u world" and Stage 1 installations go by that much quicker. It has substantially improved my installation time - my first Stage 1 install, which did not use Distcc took nearly 3 days (some downtime was incurred since I had to sleep and go to class). With only 2 Pentium 4's and 1 Pentium 3, I was able to cut that time down to about 24 hours - the installation was on my 1.6Ghz Celeron, so you know that most of the compiling capabilities wasn't done on that! If you would like to use the Distcc network I'm putting together to get your Gentoo box running or to make emerge -u world that much quicker, all I ask is that you please run the Distcc server on your machine as well. The list of servers, scheduled emerge -u world times, and a script I wrote to automatically do emerge -u world is available at: http://www.acm.wpi.edu/~rcaron/Gentoo.shtml Gentoo's HOW-TO on configuring DistCC is at: http://www.Gentoo.org/doc/en/distcc.xml Please email me if you have any questions or would like to contribute to the network. Sincerely, Ryan Caron ACM Secretary _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

March 4, 2004