[ale] Re: kernel compiling and slow machines

[Steven A. DuChene]

Alfred Grahame Leach wrote:
> Thanks for everyone who replied to me regarding the my kernel compilation 
> problems.  It turns out that my problem was running Xwindows while 
> compiling.  In retrospect it makes sense that this is an inherently bad 
> idea on a machine with a whopping Bogomips rating of 12.52 (nice, eh? - 
> anything I can do to improve this?  Looking into upgrading with a Pentium 
> 63 overdrive processor - is this a good idea?).  The compilation hasn't 
> completed yet, but it's a *WHOLE* lot further than it was before...

If your talking about the kind of upgrade where you slap a new chip into
you old motherboard, no this is not a good investment. You would be putting
a new chip into a motherboard with a slow bus, narrow memory access path
and other serious drawbacks. You would be better off to invest the same
amount of money, possibly a little less, in a modern PCI based motherboard
and 486DX2-80 or 486DX4-100 chip. This would allow you to upgrade your
system down the line with a faster video card in a modern bus, as well as
other needed improvements that would still produce a balenced system.

Just my 2 cents... (wish my keyboard had a cents sign key, anyone know how
to enter an ASCII character in vi that is not necessarily on your keyboard?)
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Steven A. DuChene   Linux Weenie!  http://www.mindspring.com/~sduchene

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