Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Jul 2006 21:02:00 -0400 | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: Building the kernel on an SMP box? |
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Brian D. McGrew wrote: > Good morning all! > > Currently I'm building my kernels on a Dell PE 1800 3.0GHz. My dilemma > is that I build and rebuild the kernel about twenty times a day and even > though it only takes about 20 minutes, that's rapidly becoming too slow! > Today it's the 2.6.17 kernel on FC5 that I'm building with. > > I see all these blurbs out there about someone being able to build a > complete kernel in under a minute or running an SMP build across > multiple CPUS and/or multiple machines. > > So, to ask the group that should know the best ... What would be a > reasonable configuration to get my builds down under five minutes or so? > And then to go to the extreme, what kind of horsepower should I be > looking for if I want get the build times down to say a minute or so???
I can just about make it on 2xXeons at 3.0GHz, HT enabled, 4GB RAM. But the new "Core 2 Duo" stuff is tons faster, is dual core but no HT yet, has better cache, faster memory bus... costs more. Some big NUMA hardware after that,
I will guess the new cheap point is o/c Core 2 Duo 6700, and will finish in about 7 min. Patience is a virtue.
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