Re: [2.5.53] So sloowwwww......

rwhron
2002-12-29T16:59:16Z

> Of course, this is little value if not possible to compare, so here
> is the same done running a kernel 2.4.20, but still compiling the
> same kernel :

>From the .config, it looks like you have a P4. I'm not
seeing that regression on K6/2 or P3 Xeon.

k6/2 475 mhz applying patches 1-17 to linux-2.4.0.tar.bz2 and
"make dep bzImage modules" with default options:

2.4.21-pre2aa2 1585 seconds
2.5.52bk5 1707 seconds
2.5.52bk8 1731 seconds
2.5.53-mm1 1744 seconds
2.5.53bk1 1702 seconds

Quad P3 Xeon 700 mhz applying patches 1-19 to linux-2.4.0.tar.bz2
to build 4 2.4.19 kernels simultaneously:

kernel average time to build 4 kernels.
2.4.20-rc4 728.9 seconds
2.4.20aa1 718.9 seconds
2.5.52bk7 713.8 seconds
2.5.53-mm1 717.8 seconds

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Randy Hron