Re: Normal buildtime for a kernel?
On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 08:34:39AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> 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.
>
Hum, my previous machine which was an AMD XP 1700+ with 512Mb of ram an
a UDMA5 ide was compiling my kernel. It took near 300 seconds to compile
it.
I found the AMD64 much quicker than this. I need to time it this evening
to see.
To me, your machine maybe downgrading its speed for not heating.
Seb
Reply to: