On Sat, 29 Aug 1998, Stefaan A Eeckels wrote:
>
> On 29-Aug-98 Dan Kegel wrote:
> > Stefaan A Eeckels wrote:
> > > I have a dual PII-266 (Intel Dakota, with 128Mb and SCSI disks
> > > and I compile the Linux kernel in about 7 minutes, honest).
> >
> > How long does it take if you disable one CPU? What speed
> > disks (7200RPM?) are you using?
> Two 4.5G Quantum UW drives, 7200rpm. I haven't timed the
> compilation with one CPU - I recompiled the kernel with
> SMP support and haven't had one problem since.
I believe that if you compile with make -j1, it will be almost like
compiling on a single-CPU system. Compiling with make -j2 should utilize
both processors.
