[Gllug] Kernel compile taking forever...!

Adrian McMenamin adrian at mcmen.demon.co.uk
Tue Feb 1 20:34:05 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 20:21 +0000, Jack Bertram wrote:

> It's taken about 10 hours so far (on an Athlon64 3000+) and still not
> done!  I haven't compiled a kernel for a couple of years now, but does
> it really take this long?
> 

No! At least not in my experience - I'd guess 25 - 30 mins or less on
your configuration. Is your box heavily loaded or swapping like mad?


> (Note that the stock Ubuntu kernel probably contains nearly every
> module, I guess, but anyway...!)
> 
> jack
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Adrian McMenamin <adrian at mcmen.demon.co.uk>
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