Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 18:13:45 -0400 From: "Steve Sims" <SimsS@IBM.Net> To: <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Suggestion for somebody with a 16MB testbox Message-ID: <000901bd6d72$c0e563c0$64468094@Elvis.RatsNest.VaBeach.Va.Us>
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For what it's worth, I just a couple of weekends ago built a custom kernel on an 8-meg 486/66 with an ANCIENT WD220 drive (50Mb swap) and the time was 45 minutes. Not much of a datapoint, but there ya go.... ...sjs... -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Mike Smith Sent: Monday, April 20, 1998 9:44 PM To: Eivind Eklund Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Suggestion for somebody with a 16MB testbox > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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