From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 22 22:10:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA04272 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 22:10:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from wraith.cs.uow.edu.au (root@wraith.cs.uow.edu.au [130.130.64.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA04259 for ; Wed, 22 Apr 1998 22:10:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ncb05@uow.edu.au) Received: from banshee.cs.uow.edu.au (ncb05@banshee.cs.uow.edu.au [130.130.188.1]) by wraith.cs.uow.edu.au (8.9.0.Beta5/8.9.0.Beta5) with SMTP id OAA00738; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 14:16:04 +1000 (EST) Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 14:16:00 +1000 (EST) From: Nicholas Charles Brawn X-Sender: ncb05@banshee.cs.uow.edu.au To: Eivind Eklund cc: Jay Nelson , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Suggestion for somebody with a 16MB testbox In-Reply-To: <19980423023507.17251@follo.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I also noticed the significant speedup in kernel compile time when I switched to freebsd (from linux). I also like this simpler task of editing the config file direct as opposed to the ncurses interface I was subjected to on linux. Nicholas Brawn -- Email: ncb05@uow.edu.au Nicholas Brawn - Computer Science Undergraduate, University of Wollongong. 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. > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message