From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 20 22:08:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA27244 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 22:08:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (castles199.castles.com [208.214.165.199]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA27230 for ; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 05:08:05 GMT (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA02631; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 18:44:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199804210144.SAA02631@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Eivind Eklund cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Suggestion for somebody with a 16MB testbox In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 21 Apr 1998 03:30:59 +0200." <19980421033059.33555@follo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 18:44:02 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I just got some totally wild times for compiling a Linux kernel under > Linux on a 16MB machine (3 hours for a plain kernel compile). This > sounds like a totally screwed up VM system. Wow, that's really ugly. > Now, for kicks, it would be neat to have measurements on how much time > it takes to compile the Linux kernel on emulation under FreeBSD > compared to on a true Linux. If somebody has a scratchbox with that > little memory (and I don't - I've not even got any small enough SIMMs > to make one), this'd be a neat experiment to run: I can arrange that here easily enough. I have to install RH5 tomorrow (again!) to do some emulation-related stuff, so if someone doesn't beat me to it in the next 12 hours, if you can produce some no-brainer instructions I'll do the lework. (Or I can give you an account on the machine and you can do it yourself 8) You don't want something stupid like an ISA IDE disk or something in it now do you? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message