System performance comparison

George Bonser (grep@oriole.sbay.org)
Wed, 8 Apr 1998 22:51:05 -0700 (PDT)

I just built 2.1.93 with both 2.0.32 and 2.1.93 and compared the times.
Thought some of you might be interested. This system was fairly loaded up
with applications to use up RAM but was inactive except for the compile.
486w/16MB BusLogic ISA SCSI disk.

Here is what I get:

2.0.32 2.1.93

make clean

real 0m21.375s 0m22.235s
user 0m5.420s 0m5.180s
sys 0m7.660s 0m3.920s

make dep

real 4m45.632s 4m40.836s
user 3m17.650s 3m17.380s
sys 0m30.780s 0m21.860s

make bzImage (after another make clean)

real 64m57.383s 52.32.561s
user 56m34.560s 45m12.940s
sys 3m59.480s 2m22.650s

Free reports the following:

total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 14440 11440 3000 2812 936 6676
-/+ buffers/cache: 3828 10612
Swap: 35836 2664 33172

George Bonser

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