From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264660AbUEUWxm (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 May 2004 18:53:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264550AbUEUWvi (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 May 2004 18:51:38 -0400 Received: from zeus.kernel.org ([204.152.189.113]:8870 "EHLO zeus.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265108AbUEUWrj (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 May 2004 18:47:39 -0400 Message-ID: <40AE18A8.2000403@tmr.com> Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 10:56:40 -0400 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031208 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: john weber CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Performance Tuning References: <20040520120514.GA29540@sixbit.org> In-Reply-To: <20040520120514.GA29540@sixbit.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org john weber wrote: > I've been comparing kernel compile stats online to those I get > on my own machine, and I am baffled. > > Kernel compiles take 6m38s on my P4 2.8GHz (with HT enabled) and > 512 MB RAM as compared to 20-30 seconds reported by folks online. > I am running kernel 2.6.6. > > While I understand that this varies with the config, I also don't > see why it should vary so much. Does anyone have any pointers on > how I could best troubleshoot my performance? If you are not using "make -j3" for your build you should be able to pick up 20-30% improvement, assuming that you have an SMP kernel running. -- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me