Hi, Axel Beckert wrote: > Damien Le Moal wrote: > > > My T41 Thinkpads only have 500MB of ram and little space left on > > > their hd. Added to that my inexperience and lack of time I'm > > > afraid I cannot be of much help for re-compiling kernels (which > > > AFAIK is quite a stress test for computers). > > > Sorry. > > > > > > Petra > > > > OK. We just need to find a Debian user volunteer for this :) > > > > Anyone ? > > I'm on it. Still installing build-dependencies... It finally finished after more than 4 days of building (the full Debian binary packages for Debian's i386 architecture with all modules, etc.): But the patch with blacklisting my harddisk (SAMSUNG HM160HC) did NOT help. :-( Still hangs at boot. See the attached screenshot. Regarding the build time: dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us -B -j2 232843.23s user 36906.95s system 75% cpu 99:44:28.97 total So it took nearly 100 hours to build Debian linux/5.16.18-1 source package, i.e. a bit more than 4 days. Also note that this compiled the kernel and all modules provided by Debian four times, i.e. four flavours (686, 686-pae, rt-686, rt-686-pae). So it's is not a kernel build specific to this system. Lessons learned: Next time I'll try to use ccache and eatmydata. And I'll use this script as pointed out by Salvatore in private to me (after I already started the package build and I didn't want to stop it) as you can restrict compilation to a single flavour and feature set: https://kernel-team.pages.debian.net/kernel-handbook/ch-common-tasks.html#s4.2.2 But more likely I'll find out how to cross-compile i386 packages on amd64, because I was able to build the very same source package (for amd64 though, which only builds three flavours, amd64, cloud-amd64 and rt-amd64) on another box in 25 minutes — also without eatmydata, ccache or any other optimization trick, except that having build with "-j128" on a RAID1 with fast SSDs below. :-) Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>, https://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 `- | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE
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