Linux installation procedure

[klaatu]

On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, ytlee wrote:

<snip>

> 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.

Hi, 

I think that was reported in error. Possibly someone built for the second
time without fully cleaning out old libraries, or maybe they were building
on a Cray. <smile>

I'll try to remind myself to download the new source and try a build, if I
do I'll post my own times.

> 
> Lee
> 
> 
> 



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