On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 04:57:56PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sunday 05 June 2005 16:46, 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? > > I wouldn't be surprised if it took 40 hours. The lack of memory is going > to affect things--if you can, stuff 128m in it. > > My 1.8G p4 laptop can do a make build in about 2 hours.
Wouha! I understand that you have slow disks in a laptop but my Via C3 with only 1GHz and 128K CPU cache is quite better: His best "make build" performance is 1:46:01. -- Olivier Cherrier - Symacx.com
