Paul G. Allen wrote:
I've compiled many kernels and on the slower machines it takes about 20
minutes. Why does it take so long with a VMWare hosted virtual machine?
I just fetched a fresh 2.6.23.3 kernel from kernel.org and did a make on
it with all of the defaults:
real 1m32.884s
user 1m6.770s
sys 0m18.100s
But that is just the kernel, no modules. A huge chunk of the kernel is
the modules these days. If you slim it down to only the modules you need
it can go a lot faster but I never bother because cpu time is cheap
compared to my time. Hmm...I just tried to do a make modules and it
complained that the current kernel doesn't have modules enabled. Since
when does the Linus kernel ship without modules enabled? I guess what
I've got here is a more or less complete kernel build in 1m32s.
This is under Xen with 1G of RAM on my personal mail server (pretty
active) with a 2.2G dual core AMD64.
Maybe your employer should have spent less on vmware and more on RAM? :)
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