[ILUG] Thoughts on a compile box

[John P. Looney]

On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 10:42:26AM +0100, lbedford at wbtsystems.com mentioned:
> Now, IIRC my Celeron 450 took ~6 mins to rebuild a kernel
> (I'm doing this from memory, so it may be wrong)... Kate, Phil,
> Vin, how long does it take you to rebuild a kernel?

 I gave up using my Dual 400 - it was just too unreliable to be bothered
with important stuff, so I've consigned it to a home machine again. If I
remember correctly, I was doing compiles in just under two minutes, when
it had 256 megs of ram (though I pare out most modules).

Kate

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