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RE: [Plug] Kernel recompile...
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for the brave...
I've seen 'make -j' work on a box with 128MB of ram + ~100mb of swap.
The load did jump to something like 48, but it didn't get any errors...it
just bogged the living daylights out of the system.
X got a gooey %-) (pun intended)
k
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On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Tracy Nelson wrote:
> Being ignorant (a suitable substitute for brave in this case) I issued a
> "make -j" to build my 2.2.7 kernel. What a trip watching xosview -- load
> average up over 48.0, CPU pegged at 100%, watching memory used wipe out
> memory buffered/cached...until I ran out of memory, then CPU usage dropped
> to ~50% and swap space started climbing. I noticed that I started getting
> lots of compiler errors at that point -- parse errors and the like. Anyone
> want to guess why? I'm wondering if it was because I ran out of file
> handles and gcc couldn't open all the include files or temporary files it
> needed. I didn't see any "xxxx.c: cannot open" errors, though. Might have
> to do that again and pipe the output to a file...
>
> Just junk food for thought!
> -- Tracy Nelson
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kyle Burton [SMTP:mortis@voicenet.com]
> Sent: Monday, June 07, 1999 14:55
> To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net
> Subject: RE: [Plug] Kernel recompile...
>
> make -j 5
>
> speed up your builds
>
>
> make dep && make clean && make -j 5 bzImage && make -j 5 modules && make -j
> 5 modules_install
>
> zoom zoom zoom
>
>
> Of course, you can do -j with no parameter if you're brave...but it should
> shave a few more seconds off your kernel compiles (ever seen a linux box
> bog down? -- just do 'make -j bzImage', it's like swimming in molasses).
>
> k
>
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> On Mon, 7 Jun 1999 Vale_Kenny@vanguard.com wrote:
>
> > I'll try it tonight, I've gotten a couple of emails saying there is not a
> > problem w/ bzImage, on modern machines w/ lotsa RAM. Therefore, I'll be
> > recompiling tonight w/ bzImage, and put all of the cool goodies back in..
> > Thanks,
> > I'll keep the list informed if I have any hassles..
> > Peace,
> > Vale
> >
> >
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