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SubjectRe: 2.6.25-rc7: Ugh.
On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Mark Lord wrote:

> David Miller wrote:
>> From: rct@frus.com (Bob Tracy)
>> Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:42:58 -0500 (CDT)
>>
>>> I don't understand this claim. On what incredibly fast piece of iron
>>> can you possibly do between 8 and 16 kernel builds (the range I've
>>> encountered when I do the "git bisect" dance), boot each one, and
>>> evaluate the results in so small a period of time?
>>
>> Builds are just over a minute on my box. I can do a full
>> kernel build plus reboot cycle in under 2 minutes.
> ...
>
> Well, lucky you.
>
> I have a box almost that quick here, too.
> Except it's not the one with the problem.
>
> My main email/work machine is the one with the problem,
> and the downtime is not affordable -- ie. it costs *me* personally money.

not that it's relavent to the problem that you are troubleshooting (based
on later messages), but I will point out that there is nothing wrong with
useing a fast box to compile kernels for slower boxes.

David Lang


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