20 Jun
2006
20 Jun
'06
4:03 p.m.
Josef Chessor wrote:
On 6/20/06, JP Hindin <jplist at kiwigeek.com>
wrote:
Interesting - circa 1993 it used to take me about 2 hours I think with the
486/33 that I had then. Kernel was 0.99 I believe, and the machine had 8MB of
memory which I suspect made a huge difference.
I'm quite surprised that the R4600/133 Indy was so slow - I'd be tempted to
point my finger at the compiler rather than the hardware there.
Reminded me of building things on my first SGI -
an Indy R4600 133mHz.
I built X manually, which took a rather remarkable twenty-two hours to
finish the make. Out of sheer masochism I then built Qt and KDE, which
took a little longer.
Boy does that 195mHz R10k SGI Indigo2 seem quick.
JP
That's about how long it took my first 2.0 kernel compile on a
386SX-16 with 4MB of RAM (an old Packard Hell desktop toy). I quickly
switched to my 5x86 after that. ;-) (I won't mention how long compiles take on my
DECstation 5000/120...
They're almost as bad, even with 32MB of RAM!)
Funny how things that used to seem fast/reasonable now seem slow. It never
used to be a big deal - you *knew* the compile was going to take hours, so you
scheduled it at a time where you didn't need the machine for anything else,
kicked it off and went to do something productive until it was done.
Takes about 10 minutes for a kernel compile on this box (and it's by no means
the latest and greatest PC or anything), and I can quite happily do other
things whilst it's compiling with no noticeable slow-downs.
cheers
Jules