(note: I know Rick Lindsay, and have directly and indirectly done
a lot of business with him. He's one of the few that'll build OS/2
workstations, as well as rather 'large' Linux boxes)
The system configs were only a little out of the ordinary... the Asus
P65UP8 motherboard is *fast*. (I know that particular dual pro system
eventually had a DPT RAID board, though I don't know if it had it for
the kernel compile) (I was in the process of helping a family member
order a rather large system from Rick). Considering that a K6/233
can get a kernel compile of around 3 minutes on a 96MB system
with IDE drives (Asus P55T2P4 board), I'd say his times are
quite reasonable.
Again, the Asus boards are a big advantage... they're a lot faster
than Supermicro under Linux, as well as (in my experience) noticably
faster than Gigabyte. (ok, so it helps that Asus tests with Linux)
I can say that your 6 minutes on a P6DNE with dual pros is AWFUL,
as I do better than that by 90 seconds or so on a single K6/166
(Gigabyte board) with 5400rpm SCSI disk.
Oh, and the K6/233 times above are under Redhat 4.2, the K6/166
times and (I believe) Rick's times are all under SuSE 5.1.
I've found that the glibc-based compiler in Debian hamm is around
half as fast as SuSE's libc5 based compiler (both 2.7.2.n) in kernel
compiles on the K6/233.
Simon Karpen slk@shodor.org
Sysadmin, Shodor Education Foundation
"On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament!], `Pray,
Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right
answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of
confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
-- Charles Babbage
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