On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 01:00 -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 09:05:54AM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 21:14 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > > > On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 16:15 -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > > > > PPC32 kernel builds take _forever_ in the build system. They're slowing things > > > > down to such extent that I'm usually still waiting for them several hours > > > > after the other architectures have finished building. > > > > > > Has anyone looked at _why_ they are so slow? Do you have timing > > > information for a particular kernel flavor? > > > > > > If I'm remembering correctly, local kernel builds on my G5 were quite > > > faster than what is in koji. Finding out why might be a good start. > > > > Ok, so I did a cvs checkout of the devel kernel last night and timed a > > simple 'make ppc'. That built both the UP and SMP ppc kernels, with all > > the associated -devel and -debuginfo packages. > > > > This was done on a dual-cpu G5 with 1.5 GiB of DRAM running F9. Gnome, > > Evolution, X-Chat, and Rhythmbox were running, but it was otherwise > > unused. > > > > The results: > > > > real 117m16.886s > > user 133m27.480s > > sys 20m47.314s > > > > How does that compare with koji builds? > > The last one I timed yesterday took about 4-5 hours. Just for ppc32 kernels, or the whole kernel koji job? josh -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
