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- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Path: sparky!uunet!van-bc!stewart
- From: stewart@wimsey.bc.ca (Jim Stewart)
- Subject: Re: No patchlevel 3.
- Organization: Wimsey
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 05:00:04 GMT
- Message-ID: <BuCJ85.52v@wimsey.bc.ca>
- References: <bjl.715932240@freyr> <716036077snx@kerberos.demon.co.uk>
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- In article <716036077snx@kerberos.demon.co.uk> alovell@kerberos.demon.co.uk (Anthony Lovell) writes:
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- >In article <bjl.715932240@freyr> B.J.Lippolt@research.ptt.nl writes:
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- >>joel@wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman) writes:
- >>
- >>>In article <1992Sep7.215429.7866@umr.edu> dminer@mcs213e.cs.umr.edu (Dan> Miner) writes:
- >>>>wait a little (~100K? for that one). Now, I got pl4 and ready for
- >>>>an all night compile (it takes over 5 hrs on my machine.. :( )
- >>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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- >>>machines? I seem to recall about 15 minutes for a recompilation.
- >>
- >>This depends highly on your machine. I've got a 486/33-8M and it takes
- >>just under 10 minutes. I've seen others with the same configuration
- >>mentioning the same time, so I guess that's fairly normal for this type
- >>of machine. I wouldn't be suprised if it takes 5 hours on a 386SX/16-2M.
- >>
- >>
- >>Ben Lippolt
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- >>
- >With only 2M it'll be too busy swapping to compile any thing
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- To add another datapoint, my build of 0.97pl4 took EXACTLY 10 min.
- ... why EXACTLY? ... it finished just as the screen saver came on. :-)
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- 20Mhz 486sx, 8Meg, Connor IDE drive.
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- js
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