From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752062AbWG2T3n (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Jul 2006 15:29:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752071AbWG2T3n (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Jul 2006 15:29:43 -0400 Received: from mail.tmr.com ([64.65.253.246]:56743 "EHLO pixels.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752062AbWG2T3m (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Jul 2006 15:29:42 -0400 Message-ID: <44CBB7F5.1080704@tmr.com> Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 15:33:09 -0400 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060516 SeaMonkey/1.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andi Kleen CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Building the kernel on an SMP box? References: <14CFC56C96D8554AA0B8969DB825FEA0012B3898@chicken.machinevisionproducts.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andi Kleen wrote: > "Brian D. McGrew" writes: >> So, to ask the group that should know the best ... What would be a >> reasonable configuration to get my builds down under five minutes or so? >> And then to go to the extreme, what kind of horsepower should I be >> looking for if I want get the build times down to say a minute or so??? > > Depending on your build pattern you can likely speed up rebuilds by > using ccache. > > If that doesn't help get one or two (or more as needed) cheap dual > core systems and use icecream (http://en.opensuse.org/Icecream) to do > a cluster build and build with -jN (N=2*available cores/threads or so) That sounds really useful, although I bet it assumes that the build environment is the same on all machines. Or at least similar. I'll have to try that, I have two lightly used machines to add to the build. Thanks! -- Bill Davidsen Obscure bug of 2004: BASH BUFFER OVERFLOW - if bash is being run by a normal user and is setuid root, with the "vi" line edit mode selected, and the character set is "big5," an off-by-one errors occurs during wildcard (glob) expansion.