Linux installation procedure

[ytlee]

I wrote
> > My installation is on PII 400 with SCSI-2 and a S3 video card. It took
over
> > 12 hours to compile. Since some reported good result with AMD K3, I
went
> > out and get a AMD chip to see if it cut down the compilation time. I
must
> > not done the switches right, it still took over 11 hours.
>

Bryan wrote
> Well, VTK takes a good three or four hours to build on my dual PII450 with
> 256MB.  So 11 to 12 hours on the above setup does not seem unreasonable.
> If you have plenty of ram you might consider using the "-j" option to
> initiate a parallel make.  Obviously with one processor you won't truly
> get a parallel build but some of the disk IO can then be done
> asynchronously so you might see a small performance bump from that.

I did not mention the memory I have on PII, it has 384M and it is a PC-100
bus  and intel 440BX chipset. I repeated that with AMD K3-450 with 128M and
same HD. Both with Redhat 5.1 and 125M swap. The later seems faster but not
much. In the past posts, someone reported ~45min. with K3. That is the setup
I want to do.

Lee




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