Douglas R. Reno wrote:
My current host has a 6GB of RAM and a Core 2 Quad Q9650, and my brand new box has a Core i7 with 16GB of RAM, so I am hoping to see a difference. Building with a 10Minute SBU time is painful when the machine cannot be used while something like Qt4 or Firefox is being compiled. My plan is to do my BLFS work on the Laptop and use the VM to confirm build instructions, timing, etc.
How many cores does your i7 have? Mine has 6 with hyperthreading so the kernel thinks it is 12. I usually max out builds with -j10 and that leaves two cores for other monitoring tasks. For builds where the book says it's less than about 0.5 SBU, I usually just use -j1.
With 16G of ram you don't have to worry about running out. That's what I have and would only start to stretch that with multiple simultaneously running qemu sessions.
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