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A friend of mine bought the same board/processor, but
had 8 megs of memory instead of 4, same drive, too, and his works
wonderfully.  Is having only 4 megs of real memory bottlenecking in some
way?  Thanks much for any replies, this is really tickin me off :)

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Quote:> I recently purchased an AMD motherboard w/processor from Micro Pro out of
> computer shopper, and added the 4 megs of mem from my old 386 to it.  I
> have a WD 850mb HD and a few other goodies, nothing major.  After
> installing linux, I patched up to kernel v1.2.11, and attempted to
> compile.  After 8 hrs of compiling and working the drive to death, I
> ^c'd it.  I have 16megs of swap available, and all seemed to be normal,
> no errors on the compile, it just took an ENORMOUS amount of time to get
> anything done.  I've heard of hardware incompatibility problems w/linux
> under the AMD board, but nothing solid.  Any suggestions, comments on
> what to change/do?  

> A friend of mine bought the same board/processor, but
> had 8 megs of memory instead of 4, same drive, too, and his works
> wonderfully.  Is having only 4 megs of real memory bottlenecking in some
> way?  Thanks much for any replies, this is really tickin me off :)

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        I also have a 486dx4-100 with 16mbytes of ram, an it take my machine
20-30mins tops to compile the kernal from scratch...

My swap parition is approx. 50Mbytes.

Cheers..

Quote:>G'day,

>    I also have a 486dx4-100 with 16mbytes of ram, an it take my machine
>20-30mins tops to compile the kernal from scratch...

>My swap parition is approx. 50Mbytes.

>Cheers..

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>   The -pipe seems to slow things down, some time ago I compiled a
>kernel on the office 386/33 4M and 8M swap, took aaaaages, removed the
>-pipe from the makefile and it then took about 50 mins to an hour.
>Was looking at this a few days ago after compiling 1.2.11 on a friend's
>486dx4-100 8M and 8M swap took longer than on my 486dx2-66 32M, swap
>never gets used. grep -pipe Makefile didn't find it, but it is there
>somewhere maybe in the Makefiles of the subdirs.
>Regards
>Sid...G3VBV...Amdahl(UK)...