Compilation of Linux kernel takes about an hour.
Assuming you’re using recent kernel and usual hardware available on the market at that time.
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$ time make -j10 deb-pkg
[...]
real 37m50.646s
user 95m0.296s
sys 5m57.186s
And that’s assuming you do like I do, compile pretty much everything (as a module) AND compile the kernel with debug information, which adds quite a bit to the total time (building the resulting .5 gigabyte package alone after compilation takes several minutes). With a trimmed down kernel and no debug symbols, I suspect times less than 15 minutes should be easy to achieve.
Not true. Compiling the recent Linux kernel on up-to-date Atari hardware takes almost a day.
I wouldn’t call Atari usual hardware these days ;P
It takes much less for a tailored configuration (e.g. localmodconfig). You are using -j, right?
Yes I’m using -j option.
You know, I remember last winter, when I’ve been working in the university, and my laboratory wasn’t warm enough (actually, it was quite cold there), so I decided to distcc kernel at ~16 computers which would otherwise be just idle. Well, that reduced kernel compilation time to ~10 minutes, but didn’t warm the room up, unfortunately, even when I looped that for ever and added few `bzip2 /dev/null` pipelines at each machine.
Crap, I meant `bzip2 < /dev/urandom | gzip | unzip | bunzip2 > /dev/null`
Ever thought of compiling on multiple cores at once?
The K3ninho corollary: Fifteen minutes if your .config is optimised for your hardware.
(Even then, that’s old news. My best time is based on spinning rust, rather than silicon storage. Solid-State Disks chop the time needed for a generic kernel drastically. Even better than copying the git tree into shared memory or somehow ensuring that the files are in-memory in the file cache — but only because you don’t have to jump through those hoops to get it into RAM and because you don’t have a search-the-file-cache wait time.)
K3n.