[Gllug] Kernel compile taking forever...!

[Jack Bertram]

* Jack Bertram <jack at jbertram.net> [050201 20:51]:
> * Adrian McMenamin <adrian at mcmen.demon.co.uk> [050201 20:35]:
> > 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?
> 
> jack at computer:~ # uptime
>  20:50:17 up 21:45,  7 users,  load average: 1.37, 1.96, 2.21
> 
> jack at computer:~ # free -m
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:          1012        979         32          0        250        270
> -/+ buffers/cache:        459        552
> Swap:          486          2        483

Looks like it might be finishing now (12 hours later.)  I guess it's the
default Ubuntu config that's at fault (too many modules) and I've built
the entire kernel tree.

Still seems a long time though...
j
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