Re: Announce: Kernel Build for 2.5, Release 2.0 is available

[Keith Owens]

On Fri, 5 Apr 2002 14:29:23 +0100, 
Russell King <[e-mail]> wrote:
>On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 10:52:43PM +1000, Keith Owens wrote:
>> On a smaller config (full config takes too long when single threaded).
>> 
>> kbuild 2.4:
>> 	make oldconfig dep bzImage modules	6:25
>> 	make bzImage modules (no changes)	0:22
>> 
>> kbuild 2.5:
>> 	make oldconfig installable		4:45
>> 	make installable (no changes)		0:16
>
>How does it compare in (ahem) 32-64MB machines?

You could always try it yourself, but ...

Same .config, on a Pentium III (Coppermine) 1090 Bogomips, 2.4.18 SMP
kernel booted with maxcpus=1, mem=32M.

kbuild 2.4:
 	make oldconfig dep bzImage modules     15:11
 	make bzImage modules (no changes)	0:33
 
kbuild 2.5:
 	make oldconfig installable		13:33
 	make installable (no changes)		 0:33

Even at 32MB, kbuild 2.5 is slightly faster.