ptb> Yes, might have been an rsync issue: I forgot that I had recently upgraded
ptb> rsync on the workstation. Please just take the report as an anecdote for
ptb> the time being. To make amends I'll do some more benchmarking.
If someone can suggest some 2.3 kernels to try, I'll have a go at them
too. The following tests show no dramatically obvious improvements
since 2.0.36 till 2.2.15 (well, system time IS down 33%).
Peter
P2-450 128MB ram fujitsu IDE gcc 2.8.1
linux-2.2.15 builds linux-2.2.15
tools/build -b bbootsect bsetup compressed/bvmlinux.out CURRENT > bzImage
Root device is (3, 5)
Boot sector 512 bytes.
Setup is 3540 bytes.
System is 491 kB
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/linux-2.2.15/arch/i386/boot'
206.26user 13.40system 4:45.00elapsed 77%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+0minor)pagefaults 0swaps
(repeat = 191.51user 13.82system 4:06.03elapsed 83%CPU)
(repeat = 192.94user 11.97system 3:32.34elapsed 96%CPU)
(repeat = 192.06user 12.89system 3:36.31elapsed 94%CPU)
linux-2.2.10 builds linux-2.2.15
tools/build -b bbootsect bsetup compressed/bvmlinux.out CURRENT > bzImage
Root device is (3, 5)
Boot sector 512 bytes.
Setup is 3540 bytes.
System is 490 kB
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/linux-2.2.15/arch/i386/boot'
194.43user 13.48system 4:01.60elapsed 86%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+0minor)pagefaults 0swaps
(repeat = 195.53user 12.19system 3:50.47elapsed 90%CPU)
(repeat = 193.83user 13.56system 4:05.17elapsed 84%CPU)
(repeat = 194.38user 12.07system 3:28.01elapsed 99%CPU)
linux-2.0.36 builds linux-2.2.15
tools/build -b bbootsect bsetup compressed/bvmlinux.out CURRENT > bzImage
Root device is (3, 5)
Boot sector 512 bytes.
Setup is 3540 bytes.
System is 491 kB
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/linux-2.2.15/arch/i386/boot'
197.72user 19.60system 4:51.44elapsed 74%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+0minor)pagefaults 0swaps
(repeat = 193.800u 19.120s 4:17.45 82.7% 0+0k 0+0io 226636pf+0w)
(repeat = 193.840u 18.460s 3:59.65 88.5% 0+0k 0+0io 224967pf+0w)
(repeat = 193.890u 17.920s 3:39.89 96.3% 0+0k 0+0io 223723pf+0w)
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