On 19 Jun 2003, Christopher Smith wrote: > On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 06:27, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > again, until i can benchmark it, i'll never know if there's an > > advantage. and, as i said, when i do a standard kernel build, there > > is a fair amount of HD activity, so there's certainly *potential* > > for reducing disk activity. > > I can't help with RAM disks, however, I just thought I'd remind you that > to be fair you need to add the time it takes to create the RAM disk and > copy the data to it to whatever time result your compile-from-ramdisk > works out to be.
of course, but this is something that can be done as, say, part of the boot process or something, or while i'm reading my mail, or whatever. just *not* as part of every kernel compilation process, that's all. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Eno River Technologies Unix, Linux and Open Source training Waterloo, Ontario www.enoriver.com -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
