On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 08:44 -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > 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. kernel-source-2.6.10 Jeez. Athlon 2200+, 1GB RAM, 100GB ATA/133 drive, with a "desktop" .config file (i.e., no low-level SCSI drivers, weird filesystems, etc, but all USB, firewire, bluetooth, etc options chosen) and it takes about 12 minutes. But, hmm, no DRI or fb and only 1 codepage, if that makes a diffie. > > 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. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "The mass of ignorant Negroes still breed carelessly and disastrously, so that the increase among Negroes, even more than the increase among whites, is from that portion of the population least intelligent and fit, and least able to rear their children properly." W.E.B. DuBois (co-founder of the NAACP), 1932
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