[Mageia-dev] Is mageia a bit slow?

Colin Guthrie mageia at colin.guthr.ie
Thu Jan 19 13:39:10 CET 2012


'Twas brillig, and Donald Stewart at 19/01/12 09:00 did gyre and gimble:
> On 19 January 2012 08:37, Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2012/1/19 Michel Catudal <michelcatudal at gmail.com>:
>>>> Are you sure you're using a comparable build environement, meaning similar
>>>> harware and similar file system, and you're not comparing an nfs-mounted
>>>> homedir versus a local ssd, for instance ?
>>>
>>> Same hard disk, same PC
>>>
>>> spec file almost identical except that I have --with-system-zlib configure
>>> section on Scientific Linux and
>>> Release:       1%{?dist}  instead of Release:       %mkrel 2
>>
>> But the compilation flags are obviously different.
>> (set by rpm-mageia-setup-build on mga)
>> What ar those on the 2 differents OS?
> 
> I cant say how much of a significant baring it will have, but my hdd
> has vastly varying read speeds depending on where the system is. The
> space at the end of the drive is far far slower that the space at the
> start. I guess that this could lead to some discrepancies.
> 
> But as others say, the flags are more likely.

Things like ccache from previous compilations can also make a *huge*
difference to compile times.

Col

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