On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 02:42:21PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > > It takes over an hour to build glibc or gcc. BLFS is roughly 10 minutes. > > Actually on my system, LFS takes 56 seconds and BLFS takes 3m23s. > Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz > > Sometimes it indeed seems like 10 minutes. :) > > -- Bruce > I've moaned about the time to render the BLFS book in the past (running an old athlon64 2000MHz, but with the memory detuned so that the mobo could handle a massive 4 sticks of DRAM), but since then I've had to upgrade it (the via chipset on the old mobo didn't understand current SATA drives), The base system is a very *old* version of CLFS, and I'm now running an athlon II x2 255 in 64-bit mode (3100Mhz, but using the 'ondemand' cpufreq driver, so it usually starts processing at 2x800MHz). This has nearly 8GB of RAM [ well, it does have 8GB, but the built-in radeon VGA takes some of it ].
LFS (r9573) 0m27.413s BLFS (r8896) 2m12.084s So, trying to render the books on old hardware is probably not a good idea, and I assume that more memory is always a good idea. FWIW, my current 'server' idles at about 67W (according to the power meter I had plugged in), which is a bit more than the previous one - maybe an extra 10W : not good for the planet or my electricity bills, but I'll live with that (I needed more disk space for my photos). ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
