On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 09:00:02AM +1000, Ray Phillips wrote:
> 
> Could someone help me to reconcile the fact that running
> 
> # cd /usr/src
> # ./build.sh -D ../DistribDir -R ../ReleaseDir release
> 
> takes around eleven hours on a 500 MHz PWS with 1 GB RAM but around 
> seven hours on a PII with 640 MB RAM?

On Alphastation 500/500 with 512MB RAM (21164, 500MHz, 8MB l3 cache)

make distribution started at:  Sun May 18 09:26:27 EEST 2003
make distribution finished at: Sun May 18 17:10:37 EEST 2003

This was the latest current, built with 1.6T (alpha->alpha), 
XFree and phoenix competing for CPU-time as well. 

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jht