Richard P. Koett wrote: > I'm running "make build" on a Pentium 100 with 64M and an old IDE > drive. Any guesses as to how long this might take? > > And, out of curiosity, how fast can a fast i386 box do it?
A while back, I think a P90-pushed-to-100MHz, with 64M or 96M of RAM and a non-UDMA disk interface took a little over a day to do a build. MOST P100 class systems do support UDMA IDE operation, this was just an (otherwise) really good machine with a really bad choice of IDE interface chips. Since then, GCC has gone to v3, and a few other things that have made the project Bigger. However, if you have a UDMA operation, you may gain some of that time back. So I'm going for under 30 hours. 'course, it depends on how old that "old IDE drive" is. If it is under 2G, I'm moving my bet to "never" -- you'll probably run out of disk space first. :) As for "fast end" -- a while back, I built a box Just For Build Speed (fbld). Not the fastest of anything I could get, but best I could do at the time for the money I was willing to spend... AMD XP2700 2x9G 10k SCSI drives, with /usr as a ccd(4) RAID0 striped set 29160 controller 256M RAM At the time I built it, it could do a build & release in less than an hour (BARELY less than an hour!). It takes substantially more now...kinda lost its excitement for me when it broke through the one hour mark. :( Further, with the addition of SMP support, suddenly, this thing is completely unimpressive compared to what CAN be done now (it is also close to two years old... *yawn*) If you want to see fast, think about this: Quad AMD64 Fast RAID controller lotsa RAM. can't recall what someone said that the build times were, but they made my "fbld" machine look like your P100... Nick. (who isn't buying an AMD64 until I can get a few of 'em...as I'd never be able to figure out what to do with Just One).
