Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: DRAM to CPU Frequency Ratio (Athlon) | Date | Wed, 30 Aug 2000 09:29:20 +0200 (MEST) | From | (Rogier Wolff) |
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Marc Mutz wrote: > > Thank you for your reaction. Others on the list also said that with a > > kernel compile, disk speed is a bottleneck, not memory.
I doubt that. My system is pinned at 200% CPU most of the time during a kernel compile. A kernel is 60Mb of disk which loads in about 3 seconds. A full kernel compile easily takes 60 times as long....
Roger.
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