Re: Performance Tuning

[Prakash K. Cheemplavam]

Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:
> On Thu, 20 May 2004 12:05:15 -0000, john weber <weber@xxxxxxxxxx>  said:
>
>
> > Kernel compiles take 6m38s on my P4 2.8GHz (with HT enabled) and 
> > 512 MB RAM as compared to 20-30 seconds reported by folks online. 
> > I am running kernel 2.6.6.
[snip]
> Seriously - the only way to do a kernel build in 20 seconds is to use 'make
> -j20' or so, and have enough processors to handle it, and enough RAM so that
> you can basically do the whole thing in the fin-core cache rather than beating
> on the disk....

20sec sounds very far from reality for me. I have athlon xp@xxxxxx and 
with gcc3.4 it takes about 4min to compile a 2.6.6-mm kernel. Using 
gcc3.3.x it needs minutes more.

Prakash
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