From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 28 00:19:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA18049 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 28 May 1998 00:19:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gwdu60.gwdg.de (gwdu60.gwdg.de [134.76.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA18037 for ; Thu, 28 May 1998 00:19:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de) Received: from localhost (kheuer@localhost) by gwdu60.gwdg.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA06337; Thu, 28 May 1998 09:19:23 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 09:19:23 +0200 (CEST) From: Konrad Heuer To: Donald Oliver cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernel compilation In-Reply-To: <356CCCA8.BE46EF28@ieee.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 27 May 1998, Donald Oliver wrote: > I am creating a kernel according to the directions in the handbook. I > ran the "make" part and it is taking forever. I started it at 7:00 AM > and it is still compiling at 10:30PM. Would this have anything to do > with only 4 Meg of RAM or is something else wrong? Time for kernel compilation obviously depends on the actual hardware. E.g., on a P233 machine with 128M the elapsed time is about 5 minutes, but on 486DX33 with 20M the compilation of `my' kernel takes more than an hour. I've no experience with a 386 system and 4M (your hardware?), but time may grow heavily. Furthermore, as I remember, isn't 5M the required minimum since 2.2-RELEASE? 2.0.5(?)-RELEASE worked fine for me on a 4M system, but it seems to be long ago ... :-) Konrad Heuer // Gesellschaft fuer wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH // Goettingen (GWDG), Am Fassberg, D-37077 Goettingen, Germany // // kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message