2001-10-12 10:59:36

by snpe

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Subject: Kernel 2.4.11 & 2.4.12 are much slower

Hello,
I try kernel 2.4.11 and 2.4.12 (RH 7.1, gcc-2.96-81, celeron 300 mhz
256 mb ram, ide ata 100 ibm)
I compile kernel with 2.4.11 - 110 minutes (with any other 40 min)
KDE 2.2.1 is unresponsible and I back in 2.4.10

What is problem ?

regards
peco


2001-10-12 11:04:56

by Rui Ribeiro

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Subject: RE: Kernel 2.4.11 & 2.4.12 are much slower


-----Original Message-----
From: snpe [SMTP:[email protected]]
Sent: Sexta-feira, 12 de Outubro de 2001 13:07
To: [email protected]
Subject: Kernel 2.4.11 & 2.4.12 are much slower

Hello,
I try kernel 2.4.11 and 2.4.12 (RH 7.1, gcc-2.96-81, celeron 300 mhz
256 mb ram, ide ata 100 ibm)
I compile kernel with 2.4.11 - 110 minutes (with any other 40 min)
KDE 2.2.1 is unresponsible and I back in 2.4.10

What is problem ?

regards
peco
-

[Rui Ribeiro]
I also noticed disk performance w/ 2.4.12. The kernel settings are exactly the same I used for 2.4.11 and 2.4.10.

Regards,
Rui

2001-10-12 11:34:30

by Hacksaw

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Subject: Re: How to install the linux source tree?

Rachel, please see <http://www.kernelnewbies.org>.

Please also see <http://www.tux.org/lkml/>.
--
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make sure you weren't there already?"
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2001-10-12 12:11:56

by Jose Luis Domingo Lopez

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Subject: Re: Kernel 2.4.11 & 2.4.12 are much slower

On Friday, 12 October 2001, at 14:06:32 +0200,
snpe wrote:

> Hello,
> I try kernel 2.4.11 and 2.4.12 (RH 7.1, gcc-2.96-81, celeron 300 mhz
> 256 mb ram, ide ata 100 ibm)
> I compile kernel with 2.4.11 - 110 minutes (with any other 40 min)
> KDE 2.2.1 is unresponsible and I back in 2.4.10
>
Don't know about the problem you seem to experience. But it seems your
machine is completely broken both with 2.4.10 and 2.4.1[12]. A kernel
compile on such hardware that lasts 40 minutes is absolutely unusual.

My PC is a 166 Pentium (even no MMX), 64 MB RAM, and a hard disk that
bonnie reports having a maximun R/W performance of only 4 MB/s. With this
hardware, and kernel 2.4.11, a compilation of kernel 2.4.12 + some
modules (100 in total), also running icewm, X 4.1, Mozilla, Xchat,
gkrellm, xawtv, several rxvt's and more, total compilation time for kernel
+ modules (make dep clean bzImage modules) is 65 minutes. And, in the
middle of the compilation, cron.daily was run.

So maybe there is a problem with kernel 2.4.1[12] on your setup, but it
seems that also your base hardware is not working as it should.

Greetings.

--
Jos? Luis Domingo L?pez
Linux Registered User #189436 Debian Linux Woody (P166 64 MB RAM)

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2001-10-12 11:18:08

by Rachel Chew

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Subject: How to install the linux source tree?

Hi.

I'm a linux newbie. And I've got red-hat 7.1 installed on my laptop. I
intend to use the latest pcmcia-cs drivers which requires a linux source
tree?! I have downloaded the equivalent copy of kernel 2.4.2-2.src.rpm. Can
I not recompile the kernel, since I have no experience in it and I'm using
lilo as I've partitioned my harddisk for win98 and a logical partition for
redhat. So, I do not wish to screw things up.

Can anyone please teach me how to get the linux source tree so that the
pcmcia-cs.rpm can use the linux source tree to start the build. I'm sure I
do not need to recompile my kernel as I've got pcmcia enabled in my current
kernel (the one that came with redhat). Any help appreciated. Please reply
soon. Desperate to get my ethenet card working. Thanks in advance.

rachel


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