On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, NetBSD Bob wrote:

: > When you compiled the stripped kernel under 1.5, was the system running a
: > GENERIC 1.5 kernel?  It could be that the the GENERIC 1.5 kernel used up
: > more RAM than the the GENERIC 1.4.3 kernel.
:
: I had not thought about that.  All were compiled from their generic
: installed kernel.  The 4.3BSD machine has 6mb ram and esdi drives,
: and the NetBSD box has 13mb ram and scsi drives.

The GENERIC kernels chew a lot of unpageable memory for all the extra
add-ons.  Once you have a stripped-down kernel on a lower memory machine,
you should see much improved compiler performance.

Note that the toolchain did not change significantly from 1.4 to 1.5 -- the
compiler is the same, albeit possibly with a couple very minor bugfix
differences.

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