Take out memory to speed up kernel build!?

Martin Sandiford msandifo at ucs.adelaide.edu.au
Wed Oct 3 11:44:10 AEST 1990


>From article <4133 at altos86.Altos.COM>, by steve at altos86.Altos.COM (Steve Scherf):
> In article <34417 at cup.portal.com> ts at cup.portal.com (Tim W Smith) writes:
>>I've got 4 megs of RAM, and the command /etc/conf/cf.d/link_unix
>>takes about 7.5 minutes.
>>When my back was turned the other day, one of our QC people
>>stole my memory card, leaving me with only 2 meg.
>>Guess what?  My kernel build now takes only 5 minutes!


That seems to say that your memory card is obnoxiously slow. :-(

Martin



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