[clug] Anyone want to give a talk for this week's CLUG meeting?

Brett Worth brett at worth.id.au
Tue Jan 22 11:12:15 GMT 2008


Chris Smart wrote:
> Brett Worth wrote:
>   
>> For the sake of the exercise I just downloaded 2.6.23.14, did a make oldconfig
>> and a "time make -j2" on my laptop and it took ~23 minutes.  This produced the kernel and
>> 1706 modules.
>>
>> Hardly 8 hours.
>>     
> I think there was an option to build EVERYTHING in the kernel.. though I
> can't remember what it is now. I built this once and it took a reeeally
> long time and resulted in 700MB+ kernel and modules.
>   
The modules created were 646MB.

A "du" at the top of the build tree says its 2.6GB!!

Brett



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