Request for kernel-compile time (advance user only)

[William Park]

On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 11:38:05PM -0400, Giles Orr wrote:
> "make oldconfig" asked about 20 questions, I answered the default to all.
> 
> Dell Inspiron 530
> Core 2 Quad 2.4 GHz (130W)
> 4 GB ? ? (n-n-n-m) ... but it's four sticks
> Dell cheapo mobo
> 
> (it's a new box with a quad core.  I was curious.)
> 
> "time make -j 5" (on ted's advice) first run (ie. no significant caching):
> "real   7m16s"
> 
> Holy crap - that included building all the modules too.  I may not
> dread "make" quite so much in the future.
> 
> I'd like to do a comparison run on my old Athlon 2700+ from 2003, but
> realistically I'm unlikely to get around to it and it would probably
> cause no end of problems being a 64 bit config on a 32 bit machine.

Since it's quad-core, a comparable time would be 7 x 4 = 28min which is
about right.  Okey, I'm less disappointed. :-)

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