On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 12:45:18AM -0600, Bob Tanner wrote: > Anyone read anything about distributed compilation of the kernel? > > I'm talking about distributing the compile of the kernel across idle boxes on > your network. > > Something ala pvm. NOT like a cluster. Bob, follow the threads with the title "xy.z second kernel compile" on LKML. They got it down from 21s to 10.3s to 7.52s - there is no time to distribute that 8^) Now seriously, for my 150 MHz Sparc compiling locally is too painfull. The best results I've got by compiling over NFS, with the directory on a machine with fast disk and enough RAM. florin -- "If it's not broken, let's fix it till it is." 41A9 2BDE 8E11 F1C5 87A6 03EE 34B3 E075 3B90 DFE4 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020319/a826ec6f/attachment.pgp