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Re: S-L-O-W Compilation
On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Aviram Jenik wrote:
> The first three seem to take the longest, each one takes quite a few
> hours.
> Any ideas? I'm using a 486DX (25MHZ I think) with 8MB RAM and ~1GB HD.
> My swap partition is over 100MB, and it's active.
>
> What can I check?
Compiling a kernel is not like compiling some chicken shit program.
Compiling a kernel takes a loooong time. It took several hours on my
486sx, too, I can tell you that.
Maybe you could try to remove some of the kernel options, you may be
compiling too big a kernel for your own good.
Regards,
Nir.
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