Eric Dantan Rzewnicki <rzewnickie@xxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 10:37:21AM +0000, Steve Harris wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 09:51:36 +0100, Mario Lang wrote: >> > Our Dual-Opteron machine is soo damn fast I couldnt believe >> > it at first. We're having internal jokes that AMD is a problem >> > for sysadmins, since one doesn't even find the time to get a coffee >> > anymore :-).. OTOH, I am probably biased since I only worked with >> > Opteron so far which as I understand it performs quite a bit better >> > than its smaller brothers... >> Damn. I was hoping the Athlon would be as fast as the opteron :( You're >> right, the opteron is scary-fast for the price. > > to get an idea how fast this type of scary-fast is in some sort of units > ... how long does a kernel compile take? kernel compiles aren't very expressive as long as you dont specify a particular config. There is a huge difference between a so-so kernel and say one which has all modules built... Extracting a 2.6.10 tarball, running make menuconfig once, without changing anything and just saving, and then "make -j4 bzImage" results in: Kernel: arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage is ready real 1m50.664s user 3m7.761s sys 0m28.861s Yes, that is below 2 minutes real time on a 2CPU opteron. -- CYa, Mario
