On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Greg Youngblood wrote:
>
> In my testing and comparison of a single Athlon 500 versus two Celeron 400
> overclocked to 520 the Athlon was just a little bit slower. I don't
> remember the exact seconds, but the Athlon was only about 5 seconds slower
> building a 2.2 series kernel (make bzImage). Both systems completed the
> entire build process (make dep; make clean; make bzImage; make modules) in
> under 5 minutes.
The Linux kernel makefile by default does one thing at a time so you are
testing 1 Celeron not 2.
Compiling a large source tree like the Linux kernel includes a lot of disk
I/O. Differences in the disk subsystem can easily weight more than
differences in CPU's.
You can verify this by putting and EIDE dma mode 2 and a brand new 10E3
rpm UW SCSI disk in the same machine and see what difference it makes.
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