22 Mar
2005
22 Mar
'05
2:42 p.m.
Eric Dantan Rzewnicki <rzewnickie(a)rfa.org> writes:
On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 10:37:21AM +0000, Steve Harris
wrote:
kernel compiles aren't very expressive as long as you dont specify a
particular config. There is a huge difference between a so-so kernel and
say one which has all modules built...
Extracting a 2.6.10 tarball, running make menuconfig once, without
changing anything and just saving, and then "make -j4 bzImage" results in:
Kernel: arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage is ready
real 1m50.664s
user 3m7.761s
sys 0m28.861s
Yes, that is below 2 minutes real time on a 2CPU opteron.
--
CYa,
Mario
On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 09:51:36 +0100, Mario
Lang wrote:
to get an idea how fast this type of scary-fast is in some sort of units
... how long does a kernel compile take? Our Dual-Opteron machine is soo damn fast I
couldnt believe
it at first. We're having internal jokes that AMD is a problem
for sysadmins, since one doesn't even find the time to get a coffee
anymore :-).. OTOH, I am probably biased since I only worked with
Opteron so far which as I understand it performs quite a bit better
than its smaller brothers...
Damn. I was hoping the Athlon would be as fast as the
opteron :( You're
right, the opteron is scary-fast for the price.