Re: Normal buildtime for a kernel?

[Superuserman <editor@postscript.port5.com>]

Oliver writes:

> 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?

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Here is the time output for 2.6.10 using make-kpkg to build the kernel-image deb:

 chmod -R og=rX debian/tmp-image
 chown -R root:root debian/tmp-image
 dpkg --build debian/tmp-image ..
 dpkg-deb: building package `kernel-image-2.6.10' in 
`../kernel-image-2.6.10_checktime1_amd64.deb'.
 rm -f -r debian/tmp-image
 echo done >  stamp-image
 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.10'

 real	3m9.943s
 user	2m44.624s
 sys	0m19.704s

I have noticed a user time minimum of about 2m30 on previous builds. That was after a
fresh install before the disk got into disarray. Here is my WD Raptor time without the
IOCTL error on stdout:

 /dev/sda:
  Timing cached reads:   5236 MB in  2.00 seconds = 2617.09 MB/sec
  Timing buffered disk reads:  206 MB in  3.02 seconds =  68.22 MB/sec

My Athlon 64 is overclocked and probably runs a little faster than an AMD64 4000+ CPU.

Also, I used my custom kernel 2.6.11 to build the above 2.6.10 so that might be faster
than using a debian-dist kernel.

I think any AMD64 should build a kernel in under 4 minutes or there is something wrong.



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