From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1R8LNj-0004aW-2s for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:18:44 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6B22921C22A; Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:18:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail2.viabit.com (mail2.viabit.com [65.246.80.16]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4539921C20F for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:14:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [172.17.29.10] (unknown [65.213.236.242]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail2.viabit.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0A44537B49 for ; Mon, 26 Sep 2011 20:14:43 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=orlitzky.com; s=mail2; t=1317082484; bh=KhYdPMK4ceIjaQCR8t5TisvyFkRr7N5Cp8u2taUTRNE=; h=Message-ID:Date:From:MIME-Version:To:Subject:References: In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=gesrBg/1o51KLHFE5auA5jBLB6kDJPA7QJj8k0M51Dj9ZiYZhYVQ52prRU1c4JR8J 8KKvUCCwCV4dBd5/Krb/qNXKdl+GpCZnmfWv33OnNsHhcO/kEECwaaFEBhk+LJydUw vcDXZKgvIYQxdIRpy9qHVttdDDCYm5/gy2j5WtAQ= Message-ID: <4E81156F.5040507@orlitzky.com> Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 20:14:39 -0400 From: Michael Orlitzky User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.20) Gecko/20110920 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.12 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel compiles ... monitoring References: <87aa9qnbwn.fsf@newsguy.com> In-Reply-To: <87aa9qnbwn.fsf@newsguy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 9839fd4aa777103e6b302897f9234d3e On 09/26/11 19:04, Harry wrote: > > Sounds like there is no real way unless as you say. I've been > wrestling with kernel build after kernel build trying to get a new > install booted. Many failures led me to finally resorting to > genkernel... but you may know already that is a full day of compile at > least. > > But I'm seeing really massive times even on the trimmed down kernels > where I've set only known things I need. > > This is happening in a chroot from sysrescueCD on an older P4 with 2G > ram. But my god, I'm seeing hrs and hrs of compile time go by even on > a lean mean menuconfig produced .config. > > Is this pretty normal? > Don't forget, you have to pass "-j $JOBS" to make manually when building the kernel. Using -j2 should speed *any* machine up. The optimal number depends on your machine though.