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From: msandifo@ucs.adelaide.edu.au (Martin Sandiford)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Take out memory to speed up kernel build!?
Message-ID: <1556@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au>
Date: 3 Oct 90 01:44:10 GMT
References: <4133@altos86.Altos.COM>
Organization: Information Technology Division, The University of Adelaide, AUSTRALIA
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From article <4133@altos86.Altos.COM>, by steve@altos86.Altos.COM (Steve Scherf):
> 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!


That seems to say that your memory card is obnoxiously slow. :-(

Martin