Joern RENNECKE writes: > Andrew Haley wrote: > > > > >As a comparison point, I get > > > >real 73m39.275s > >user 113m19.549s > >sys 15m26.010s > > > >for the bootstrap: that's 1h14 elapsed time. That's on a "AMD > >Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4800+" (2.4 GHz) with make -j3. > >That's 129min of CPU time in 74min of elapsed time, a pretty good > >processor utilization ratio of 1.75 : 2. > > > > > Is that using the i686 or amd64 instruction set? If the latter, does it > use 32 or 64 bit pointers?
The latter. Yes. > How much RAM dos this machine have, and how fast is it? 2G. DDR400 3-3-3-8 (TWINX2048-3200PRO) This RAM also has flashing LEDs to make it go faster. (Something to do with photonics, I think.) Andrew.