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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!iafrica.com!uct.ac.za!und.ac.za!peacenjoy.mikom.csir.co.za!news.uoregon.edu!news.emf.net!gatech!news.akorn.net!news.his.com!en.com!in-news.erinet.com!bug.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!thales.nmia.com!gallup.cia-g.com!lithium From: Stephen Fisher <lithium@cia-g.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: AMD 5x86 works great..Oops Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 15:25:34 -0700 Organization: New Mexico Internet Access Lines: 40 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960314151931.8212B-100000@gallup.cia-g.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: gallup.cia-g.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Stefan Esser <se@zpr.uni-koeln.de> A kernel build takes significantly less than 10 minutes on my ASUS SP3G with AMD 5x86. The time you claim to need to build the kernel is of the order of what a "make world" requires on my system :) Last night I said that it took me 2 hours and 31 minutes to compile the kernel.. |> Doing the same (with IDE drives though..) on a 486DX4/100 with 16meg of |> ram took me about 30 minutes. That's extremely slow. You did not by chance disable your cache or set the turbo switch to "off" ??? I know, even if it was a low end 486 or 586 it still wouldn't take THAT long. So I just changed a few cache settings and enabled internal cache (it was disabled, external was/still is enabled though)... and... it took 12 minutes and 36 seconds! Amazing what a little bit of tinkering can do.. I had done some but didn't get into the hard core yet - I didn't know the cache settings could make *that* much of a difference.. anyways.. now with that problem fixed it's a great machine :> Thanx Stefan for reminding me to check the cache settings again.. I feel stupid now :(.. oh well.. :> - Steve - Systems Manager