Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 22 Jul 1998 16:54:39 -0400 (EDT) | From | John Campbell <> | Subject | Re: Low-memory compile times |
| |
On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Perry Harrington wrote:
> This looks more like a scheduler issue than anything, notice that the CPU utilization > went down and the compilation time went up, but the User and System seconds were almost > the same. It's doing the same work, it's just using less of the CPU at the time. Maybe > it's scheduling, maybe it's something else consuming the time. I've got a P100 8MB > laptop, I'll download 2.1.110 and compile it, try tweaking a few things, and going > again. > The machine is 99% idle except for kernel builds... I don't use it for anything except testing new kernels for stability and such before I move them over to my production servers. (Well, that and RC5... but that's niced to the point that it shouldn't interfere with anything. I can try it again without the RC5 client running if anyone thinks it makes a difference.) I suspect that the extra cycles are going to swapping operations, because I've noticed that the 2.1 kernels on this machine hit the swap a lot earlier and use a lot more of it.
--- John Campbell jcampbel@lynn.ci-n.com
QotD: The unfacts, did we have them, are too imprecisely few to warrant our certitude.
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.altern.org/andrebalsa/doc/lkml-faq.html
| |