Take out memory to speed up kernel build!?

[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!

Can you be more specific about the environment under which you tried this?
What was the configuration of the kernel you were running at the time, were
you single-user, are you running SCO 3.2.1 or 3.2.2, etc?

>I thought some people might find this amusing.
>					Tim Smith

I certainly do!

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Steve Scherf
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