On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 04:13:52PM +0100, Ruairí Newman wrote:
> On Wed, August 10, 2005 10:59, Timothy Murphy said:
>> > I was running Fedora (I think FC-2) on a P200 until a few months ago,
> > with X, and it wasn't unbearable.
> > I just realised I forgot to take out the memory when I dumped it.
> > I tried it with 64MB originally,
> > but compiling the kernel, for example, took over 12 hours.
> > Someone gave me 64MB RAM, and when I put that in
> > the kernel compiled in 40 minutes or so, IIRC.
>> >From ~12 hours down to 40 minutes? Was the machine using up all of it's
> RAM and swap? Possibly adding more swap might have dropped the compile
> time? How much swap did you have allocated anyway?
Could it be that on the second attempt nothing was actually compiled
since everything had already been built the first time around?
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