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From: Steve Passe <smp@csn.net>
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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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