Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 20:02:06 -0500 (CDT) From: Jay Nelson <jdn@acp.qiv.com> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Suggestion for somebody with a 16MB testbox Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980422195713.1366C-100000@acp.qiv.com> In-Reply-To: <19980423023507.17251@follo.net>
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On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Eivind Eklund wrote: >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. Forgot to mention -- this was an IDE drive with no flags. A basic ISA system. >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.) If I remember correctly, it took 25-35 minutes to make a linux kernel on a 486DX. I may have enough open space on this machine to try the experiment -- if I can dig out just the kernel sources. It's been so long since I looked at linux, I can't remember how it's packaged. >It still would be neat if we could show that FreeBSD compile a Linux >kernel faster than Linux :-) > >Eivind. > -- Jay To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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