Re: Performance Tuning

From: Prakash K. Cheemplavam (PrakashKC_at_gmx.de)
Date: 05/20/04

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    Date:	Thu, 20 May 2004 18:49:48 +0200
    To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
    
    

    Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
    > On Thu, 20 May 2004 12:05:15 -0000, john weber <weber@sixbit.org> said:
    >
    >
    >>Kernel compiles take 6m38s on my P4 2.8GHz (with HT enabled) and
    >>512 MB RAM as compared to 20-30 seconds reported by folks online.
    >>I am running kernel 2.6.6.
    [snip]
    > Seriously - the only way to do a kernel build in 20 seconds is to use 'make
    > -j20' or so, and have enough processors to handle it, and enough RAM so that
    > you can basically do the whole thing in the fin-core cache rather than beating
    > on the disk....

    20sec sounds very far from reality for me. I have athlon xp@2.2GHz and
    with gcc3.4 it takes about 4min to compile a 2.6.6-mm kernel. Using
    gcc3.3.x it needs minutes more.

    Prakash
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