Tracy R Reed wrote:
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
This is under Xen with 1G of RAM on my personal mail server (pretty
active) with a 2.2G dual core AMD64.
A far, far cry from 5 hours.
Maybe your employer should have spent less on vmware and more on RAM? :)
The virtual machine in question is similar to the one below (they are
both mail server, the one below is live and running qmail [I don't like
qmail], the one with the new kernel is still under development and will
be running Postfix.
OS Name Linux
Platform i686
Kernel 2.6.18-53.1.4.el5
Release CentOS release 5 (Final)
Processors 1
Mhz 2799.233
Model Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz
Cache 2048KB
Bogomips 5653.60
Uptime 7 days, 22:09,
Load 0.20, 0.18, 0.12
Users 0
Memory Usage
Type Capacity Free Used Size
Physical 40% 607.3M 403.8M 1,011.1M
Swap 0% 1.9G 68K 1.9GB
Filesystems
Mount Type Partition Capacity Free Used Size
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
ext3 / 12% 31GB 3.9GB 38533760
/boot ext3 /dev/sda1 18% 77.3MB 16.4MB 98.7MB
/dev/shm tmpfs tmpfs 0% 505.5MB 0KB 505.5MB
The machines are using VMWare ESX Server 3.
Some time this week we're supposed to be (hopefully) migrating a MySQL
server onto a quad Xeon with more memory.
For the life of me I can't see what would take 5 hours to do, with the
exception of installing a boatload of updates (there are times when I've
built kernels and extra stuff that it took forever to get all the
packages downloaded). There are some VMWare tools that have to be
compiled for the kernel as well, could these be part of the extended
process?
PGA
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