Re: compiling XFree86
On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 10:44:50AM +0200, Kalle Olavi Niemitalo wrote:
> Noah Ackerman <noah@nack.org> writes:
>
> > It actually is quite simple, but takes a lot of disk space for the sources.
>
> I tried to build the Debian xfree86 package, in order to try
> fixing Bug#174282. It ran out of space. :-( I tried NFS next
> but it was awfully slow (ran for 11 hours, then failed) even
> though I have a 100 Mbps network. My AS500 has 512 MiB of RAM;
> would Coda or NBD let it cache files better?
Sounds odd to me. I compiled XFree86 over 100MB NFS and I'm sure it didn't take
11 hours on my pws433.
Does the NFS server have "sync" enabled ?
patrick
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