I decided to add another 128KBytes cache yesterday, and thought I'd see
how that influenced compile times. Here if what I found:
In both cases I booted the computer, cd to /usr/src/linux/, make mrproper,
make menuconfig, loaded a saved config, make dep, make clean, and then ran:
time make zImage
The results where:
128KBytes cache:
User: 1634.55
System: 87.53
Elapsed: 29:17.45
256KBytes cache:
User: 1091.30
System: 82.78
Elapsed: 20:08.36
Just wanted to add my 2 cents.
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bardj (on his way out the door to get 1MByte cache)