[ltp] Re: So what _is_ advantage of 2.6 kernel on a Thinkpad?

Alexander Gran linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 22 Mar 2004 21:09:07 +0100


Am Monday 22 March 2004 17:40 schrieb Tod Harter:
> entire custom kernel build. On 1.5 ghz P4 with a 7200 RPM ATA133 drive
> and lots of RAM I'd say (didn't time it exactly) kernel build time was
> in excess of 40 minutes. Granted I haven't hammered on optimizing the

strange, really. My notebook (P4M 1,6Ghz, 512MB Ram, notebook 5400rpm hd) 
needs ca. 16min, This workstation (1Ghz K7, 768MB Ram) needs (while reading 
emails, upgrading the system etc.) needs just 20 mins.
No hacky optimizations (IDE with dma etc, i686 glibc, some prelinking)

Alex

-- 
Encrypted Mails welcome.
PGP-Key at http://zodiac.dnsalias.org/misc/pgpkey.asc | Key-ID: 0x6D7DD291