On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 09:49:23PM +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>> In fact the difference in kernel compile-time is surprisingly little
> between say my 200MHz PII and my 700MHz laptop.
> I don't have accurate figures to hand,
> but it is of the order of 30min against 20 min.
> Certainly it is nothing like proportional to CPU speed.
486-100Mhz 16Mb - 8 hours
200Mhz 32/64Mb (RISC - PPC) - 90 mins
200Mhz 64Mb - 30 mins
1.2Ghz 512 Mb 15-20 mins (different configs)
Obviously these all have different configurations. These days I just use
make-kpkg on my 1.2Ghz.
Brian
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