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- From: agc@weasel.demon.co.uk (Alan Charlton)
- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!weasel.demon.co.uk!agc
- Subject: Re: Kernel build benchmark
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 10:48:08 +0000
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- In article <BzM0HC.n39@citrus.SAC.CA.US> ianj@citrus.SAC.CA.US ( Ian Justman ) writes:
- > cae@davidge.com (Caleb Epstein) writes:
- > : A while back I recall a number of people posting Linux
- > : 'benchmarks' based on how long it took their machine to
- > : rebuild the kernel. The less time it took, the faster the
- > : machine.
- > Uh-uh... That sounds like a good analogy; however, what about if
- > you had more memory like I do (I have 3MB)?
- >
- > I'm using a 386sx/20 with, like I said, 3MB of RAM and 5 megs'
- > worth of swap partition, and gee whiz, I thought _ONE_ HOUR was
- > bad! Evedently even one megabyte of RAM makes all the diff (no
- > pun intended... Ok, Ok, OK!!! Pun intended :-) ).
- >
- > : This little UNIX is a tribute to its author(s). The
- > : fact that I can compile *anything* on this hunk-of-junk PC
- > : is near miraculous.
- >
- > I second the emotion!
- >
- > Here's to Linus B. Torvalds and his masterpiece which only gets
- > better!
- >
-
- I'm using a 386sx/25 with 8Mb of RAM and 3M swap (of which only about 512K
- is ever used), and a 0.99 make dep/make Image takes about 40-50 minutes,
- and never more than 1 hour. It would seem that lots of memory has a far
- greater influence on build times than all-out processor speed.
-
- Cheers,
-
- Alan.
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- | Alan Charlton, Bristol, England | If B.U.R.D. doesn't spell Bird |
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