How long to compile...

Russell J. Wood rjw at dynode.net
Tue Jan 3 10:41:41 PST 2006


On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 11:04:41AM -0500, Robert Huff wrote:
> 
> Crispy Beef writes:
> 
> >  Was wondering on average how long building userland and the
> >  kernel for 6.0-RELEASE should take on a 466MHz Celeron machine
> >  with 128Mb RAM?
> 
> 	Many hours.  :-(
> 	For comparison: it takes ~1h45 on a P4/2.25ghz with 512mb.  I
> seem to remember the 500mhz Celeron being an overnight or all-day
> job.
> 
> 
> 				Robert Huff

I'm currently doing this on an AMD K6 ~500Mhz. Buildworld took about 12
hours -- installing now -- and kernel is roughly a few hours.

- Russell


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