Re: Normal buildtime for a kernel?
On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 10:31:17AM +0100, Oliver Korpilla wrote:
> What is a normal build-time for a 2.6.11 kernel with reasonable hardware
> support (USB, SATA, ATA, On-Board Sound, Firewire ...), with many
> features compiled into the kernel?
>
> I'm doing this on a 3500+ @ 2.2 GHz, so what should I expect? How many
> time spent in the system and how many in user?
I remember some years ago it would take me about 45 minutes or so to
build a 2.4.18 kernel with most things enabled as modules that I might
ever possible have a use for, and that was on a P3 800mhz with 128MB ram
and an ATA100 30GB drive.
Compiling a 2.6.10 kernel on my Athlon 2800+ with 1GB ram and a 120GB
SATA drive with the features debian has enabled by default in their
kernels and a couple of tweaks is usually about 20 minutes or so as far
as I remember.
> I'm getting half the time spent in system and think that is strange but
> I do not really know.
Well disk read/write are system calls, so that isn't unexpected.
Len Sorensen
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