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From: steve@altos86.Altos.COM (Steve Scherf)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Take out memory to speed up kernel build!?
Message-ID: <4133@altos86.Altos.COM>
Date: 2 Oct 90 01:42:17 GMT
References: <34417@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: steve@Altos.COM (Steve Scherf)
Organization: Altos Computer Systems, San Jose, CA
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In article <34417@cup.portal.com> ts@cup.portal.com (Tim W Smith) writes:
>I've got 4 megs of RAM, and the command /etc/conf/cf.d/link_unix
>takes about 7.5 minutes.
>When my back was turned the other day, one of our QC people
>stole my memory card, leaving me with only 2 meg.
>Guess what?  My kernel build now takes only 5 minutes!

Can you be more specific about the environment under which you tried this?
What was the configuration of the kernel you were running at the time, were
you single-user, are you running SCO 3.2.1 or 3.2.2, etc?

>I thought some people might find this amusing.
>					Tim Smith

I certainly do!

-- 
Steve Scherf
steve@Altos.COM    ...!{sun|sco|pyramid|amdahl|uunet}!altos!steve

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