From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 22 17:35:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA18022 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 17:35:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.119.24.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA17820 for ; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 00:35:11 GMT (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [194.198.43.36]) by ns1.yes.no (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA04594; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 00:35:09 GMT Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id CAA15797; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 02:35:08 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19980423023507.17251@follo.net> Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 02:35:07 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund To: Jay Nelson Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Suggestion for somebody with a 16MB testbox References: <19980421033059.33555@follo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Jay Nelson on Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 07:27:55PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 07:27:55PM -0500, Jay Nelson wrote: > On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Eivind Eklund wrote: > > >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 > > RedHat? > > This is from an IBM 486SX/25 with 16MB ram that was dredged from the > back closet to serve as a 5 user samba print and file server: > > text data bss dec hex > 1044480 69632 87140 1201252 125464 > 3817.34s real 3195.95s user 402.75s system > > For all the lack of horse power, this machine does it's job quite > well. The sales droids don't notice any degredation of service. That sounds like the person that told me he had 3 hours compile times on a P90 was off base. (The 'I got' above was badly formulated.) It still would be neat if we could show that FreeBSD compile a Linux kernel faster than Linux :-) Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message