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soloport

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Registered: 2005-03-01

Posts: 442

Re: Archstats observations

OFF-TOPIC:

dibble!  Congrats!!!

Location: Leaving the Philippines FINALLY!

All the best to you in your travels.

[Edit]  Uh.. on-topic:

[root@cougar ~]# pacman -Q | wc -l
550
[root@tiger ~]# pacman -Q | wc -l
542
[root@lynx ~]# pacman -Q | wc -l
530
[root@backups ~]# pacman -Q | wc -l
123
[root@source ~]# pacman -Q | wc -l
128
[root@monitor ~]# pacman -Q | wc -l
132
[root@ddns ~]# pacman -Q | wc -l
125
[root@syslog ~]# pacman -Q | wc -l
127
[root@soloport ~]# pacman -Q | wc -l
148
[root@wfhm0 ~]# pacman -Q | wc -l
148
[root@wfhm1 ~]# pacman -Q | wc -l
148
[root@wfhm2 ~]# pacman -Q | wc -l
148
[root@wfhm3 ~]# pacman -Q | wc -l
148
[root@mills0 ~]# pacman -Q | wc -l
148
[root@benchmark0 ~]# pacman -Q | wc -l
142
[root@benchmark1 ~]# pacman -Q | wc -l
148
[root@springer0 ~]# pacman -Q | wc -l
148
[root@springer1 ~]# pacman -Q | wc -l
148
etc.

So we're a little nuts about Arch, I guess...

deficite

Member

From: Augusta, GA

Registered: 2005-06-02

Posts: 693

Re: Archstats observations

I agree with iph 100%. I always make a skeleton .config file for every computer I use and I just use oldconfig on it whenever I upgrade or apply a patch. I store it on my USB drive, so if I need to reformat I can get the kernel back up how I want it. My kernel only takes around 5 minutes (I'm on an Athlon XP 2000+) to compile. Here is my output of lsmod:

Module                  Size  Used by
ndiswrapper           137396  0
kqemu                  43464  0
nvidia               3710084  12

This system starts up so fast it's not even funny . It starts up even faster now that I disabled hotplug too.

dtw

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From: UK

Registered: 2004-08-03

Posts: 4,439

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Re: Archstats observations

deficite - i do that too dude - but it still takes ages!  infact it take just as long as the stock config - i think i must have missed something

deficite

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From: Augusta, GA

Registered: 2005-06-02

Posts: 693

Re: Archstats observations

That's weird. Is it compiling for other architectures or something? I don't know why it would take you so long to compile. Even with my old Duron 1.3 (or something around there) it'd compile faster than that. Can you show us your .config?

i3839

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Registered: 2004-02-04

Posts: 1,185

Re: Archstats observations

Good hint:

$ zcat /proc/config.gz | grep '^C' | wc
    282     282    5924

If it's even more than that you missed a bunch of option somewhere.

T-Dawg

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From: Charlotte, NC

Registered: 2005-01-29

Posts: 2,736

Re: Archstats observations

Dibble:
do you have this line after you configure your menu?

  carch=`echo $CARCH | sed 's|i||'`
  cat ../config | sed "s|#CARCH#|$carch|g" >./.config

cause that would explain why it takes just as long as stock. That actually echos in the stock arch config....