Re: Why compiling.

[Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net>]

On Wed, 2012-07-11 at 21:11 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> martin@merkaba:~> ls -lh /boot/{vm,init}*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  14M Jul  3 16:39 /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-3-amd64
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  14M Jul  3 16:39 /boot/initrd.img-3.4-trunk-amd64
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8,8M Jul  3 16:39 /boot/initrd.img-3.5.0-rc4-tp520
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8,7M Jul 10 10:34 /boot/initrd.img-3.5.0-rc5-tp520
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8,7M Jul 10 19:12 /boot/initrd.img-3.5.0-rc6-tp520+
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2,7M Jun 28 13:23 /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-3-amd64
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2,8M Jun 26 20:19 /boot/vmlinuz-3.4-trunk-amd64
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3,4M Jun 26 14:07 /boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-rc4-tp520
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3,4M Jul  5 10:18 /boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-rc5-tp520
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3,4M Jul 10 19:10 /boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-rc6-tp520+

spinymouse@precise:~$ ls /boot -hAl
total 41M
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 772K Apr 11 04:38 abi-3.2.0-23-lowlatency
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 127K May  6 22:27 config-3.0.30
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 135K Apr 11 04:38 config-3.2.0-23-lowlatency
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root  12K Jun  2 07:21 grub
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  13M May  7 01:04 initrd.img-3.0.30
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  14M May  7 01:05 initrd.img-3.2.0-23-lowlatency
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 173K Nov 27  2011 memtest86+.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 175K Nov 27  2011 memtest86+_multiboot.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.5M May  7 00:14 System.map-3.0.30
-rw------- 1 root root 2.8M Apr 11 04:38 System.map-3.2.0-23-lowlatency
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4.2M May  7 00:14 vmlinuz-3.0.30
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4.4M Apr 25 19:39 vmlinuz-3.2.0-23-lowlatency

It takes around 90 minutes with concurrency level 2, on a 2.1GHz
dual-core amd64, 4GB RAM here :(.