Subject: A Problem with _very_ slow kernel compiling From: Kristo Kaarlo Matias <kkk@field.ichaos.nullnet.fi> Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 20:33:50 EDZ
This is my hardware:
-486/50Mhz (DX2)
-8 MB RAM (Goldstar 70ns SIMMs)
-Trident 8900c or CVGA1024 (Western Digital chip set)
-Morse VGAPlus SVGA-monitor
-Toshiba 105MB ATID
-Quantum 240MB ATID
-3.5" HD floppy drive
-SoundBlaster 1.0
The problem is that compiling (make all) Linux 0.97pl5 source (from
nic.funet.fi) takes about 25 minutes! Isn't this much too slow for
486/50?!? I have tried this both under pl2 and pl5, compiler was GCC 2.2.2d.
Could this be some kind of hardware incompatibility problem? My box used to
be 386/25, until I bought this 486/50 motherboard. I think there could be
something wrong with my HDD/FDD controller, because it's rather old and
sometimes I get 'HDD control failure' (or something like that..) after
memory check.
(Sorry about my lousy English, I hope you got the point :)