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From: roberto@hsc.fr.net (Ollivier Robert)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Kernel rebuild times (was Re: Suggestion on recompiling kernel)
Date: 16 Mar 1995 16:16:54 +0100
Organization: Herve Schauer Consultants, Paris, France
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In article <3k03dv$ae9@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>,
J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote:
> Our i586/90 takes about ten minutes (or less) to rebuild a FreeBSD
> 1.1.5.1 kernel, but it has 64 MB of RAM.

I for sure hope it is less  than that !  The best I've  got on my 486DX-33,
16 MB RAM and 256 KB cache is 8.5 mn for 1.1.5.1.

2.1-current is 23  mn on  the same machine   (but with more  options and  a
larger code base).

-- 
Ollivier ROBERT    -=- The daemon is FREE! -=-    roberto@sidhe.frmug.fr.net
      FreeBSD keltia 2.1.0-Development #2: Sat Jan  7 00:55:25 MET 1995