Kevin Brosius on Tue, 2 Apr 2002 13:45:30 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] Kernel recompiles with GRUB


Mike Leone wrote:
> 
> > Oooh.  That's what we like to hear.  I'm looking at replacing my AMD K6
> > 300 in the not to distant future, and speeding up kernel and XFree86
> > compiles is a big plus.
> 
> I'll time it tonight, from beginning to end
> 
> make dep ; make clean ; make bzImage ; make modules ; make modules_install
> 
> Isn't there some timing command I could issue before and after, to do that?
> 
> As a point of reference, my kernel comes out to be something like 620K. I suppose I could make it smaller, but that's better than those behemoth 1M kernels that Mandrake comes with. They turn on EVERYTHING. :-)
> 

'man time'?  ;)

I haven't tried it on multiple commands per line, but for single
executables it does exactly what you ask.

-- 
Kevin Brosius

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