Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Mar 2003 19:10:23 +0100 | From | Jan-Benedict Glaw <> | Subject | Re: Deprecating .gz format on kernel.org |
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On Thu, 2003-03-20 11:51:41 -0600, Eli Carter <eli.carter@inet.com> wrote in message <3E79FFAD.3040904@inet.com>: > Mike Dresser wrote: > >On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > > > > > >>jbglaw@schnarchnase:/tmp$ cat /proc/cpuinfo > > > > > >>bogomips : 15.10 > > > > > >out of curiosity, how long does the machine take to compile a kernel? > > > >Do you use a stopwatch or a calendar? > > Well, going back to his original email, > > jbglaw@schnarchnase:/tmp$ uname -a > Linux schnarchnase 2.5.65 #1 Thu Mar 20 07:39:11 CET 2003 i486 unknown > unknown GNU/Linux > > And looking on kernel.org, > Mar 17 22:29 linux-2.5.65.tar.gz > > It takes him less than a week anyway*... ;) (Timezone conversions left > as an exercise to the reader.)
Um, no. I compiled it on my Athlon (2x1.4GHz) and that's more like 5min... Letting the box compile a full 2.5.x (with mostly anything useable choosen as a module), I think that would be at about 10..20 day. So it's more like looking at a calendar than looking at a stopwatch:=
> So, who can beat his 15.10 bogomips? Anyone run <1 bogomips?
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