[plug] New Toys

[John Breen]

And when you sleep in the same room with three server machines, you _do_
need air-conditioning :-)

Cheers,


John

John Breen
Programmer
United Construction Pty Ltd

(08) 9499-0472
0413-462-818
john.breen at unitedconstruction.com.au




	-----Original Message-----
	From:	Dave Cook [SMTP:davecook at iinet.net.au]
	Sent:	Tuesday, August 31, 1999 9:06 PM
	To:	plug at linux.org.au
	Subject:	Re: [plug] New Toys

	On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Gavin Tweedie wrote:

	> > A friend of mine informs me that a kernel compile on his 386
with 4meg RAM
	> > took about three _days_.
	> 
	> My first linux box...a 386sx33 with 4meg ram and 75meg hdd took
about 3
	> days...then i aborted it. Kernel compile on a 386 with no maths
copro and
	> only 4 meg of ram doesnt work too well...and when your swap is
only just
	> faster than a floppy disk well yeh go figure :)
	>
	Just for interests sake, my m68k (16Mb ram) box used to compile a
2.1.x
	kernel in about 14 hours, I could cross compile the same kernel on
my
	p2/266 oc'd to 300 in about 14 Minutes.
	  
	> > He described the moment after it had finished compiling (for the
first
	> > time) thusly: "... and then suddenly - the disk thrashing
stopped..."
	> 
	> sounds familar. I think I stopped it so I could get a good nights
sleep,
	> from memory.
	>
	Bah,  I used to sleep in the same room with my m68k box thrashing
	away doing debian package building and kernel builds overnight
(xfree
	3.3.3 (libc 5) took about 68 hours to build.  You get used to the
noise
	after a while, and dont need a heater in the room :)

	Cheers,

	Dave

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