Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 29 Jul 2006 15:33:09 -0400 | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: Building the kernel on an SMP box? |
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Andi Kleen wrote: > "Brian D. McGrew" <brian@visionpro.com> writes: >> 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??? > > Depending on your build pattern you can likely speed up rebuilds by > using ccache. > > If that doesn't help get one or two (or more as needed) cheap dual > core systems and use icecream (http://en.opensuse.org/Icecream) to do > a cluster build and build with -jN (N=2*available cores/threads or so)
That sounds really useful, although I bet it assumes that the build environment is the same on all machines. Or at least similar. I'll have to try that, I have two lightly used machines to add to the build. Thanks!
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