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Date:      Wed, 23 Apr 1997 10:51:46 -0600
From:      Steve Passe <smp@csn.net>
To:        Stephen Roome <steve@visint.co.uk>
Cc:        smp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: hardware list 
Message-ID:  <199704231651.KAA22820@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 23 Apr 1997 13:02:51 BST." <Pine.BSF.3.91.970423125904.9016B-100000@bagpuss.visint.co.uk> 

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Hi,

> What sort of kernel compile times should be expected, with my last compile
> 
> make -j8 it took 3 minutes and 48 seconds for a Generic kernel with 
> the sysv stuff for X, and none of the drivers I'm not using.
> (i.e. one net card a 2940 and 2 processors, nothing much else but 1 com 
> port for a mouse)
> 
> and make -j16 took 3 minutes 19 seconds on the same 
> kernel.
> 
> So, are these good times then ?

they're better than I got from my dual P5-133 with slow SCSI disk:
make -j8  4min 20sec

for a fairly dramatic speedup add this line to your /etc/make.conf file:

COPTFLAGS= -pipe

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