> after a few days when the newer kernel came out). 2.1.99 is better - it
> actually finished building the kernel, and it only took it about 7.5
> hours. As I write this, it's doing the "make modules", and has been
> doing so for the last 36 hours.
OUCH :)
> So, in short, this problem is real, not an artifact of Bill's
> benchmarking method, and I agree with Bill that, IMHO, this is a serious
> problem that shouldn't be allowed into 2.2. One of Linux's strengths has
> been that it could run usefully on very low end hardware, and this
> behavior removes that capability. Unfortunately, I don't know enough
> kernel hacking to fix this myself, so I can't do much more than provide
> another data point here.
Pre-100 _with_ my patch should give you quite a lot of
improvement.
Rik.
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