Re: More RAM or quicker CPU?

From: jpd (read_the_sig_at_do.not.spam.it.invalid)
Date: 02/22/05

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    Date: 22 Feb 2005 15:42:56 GMT

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    On 2005-02-22, A L Meyers <me@privacy.net> wrote:
    > Have a dual-processor i686 main board at 400 MH with 128 MB of physical
    > RAM. All other things being equal, to speed up compilation, e.g. doing
    > "make update" in glibc (took 3 days and completely successfully), would
    > it help more to double RAM to 256 MB or double processor speed?

    My guess would be ram, but disk might be an issue, too. The first
    step you'd take would be to monitor what it is doing to see where the
    bottleneck is. There's various tools for that, starting with top(1). 

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