Hello All. Below are some compile times for 2.6.20 on an fx-62 running Centos64 with various 2 gig sticks of dual channel ram (See previous posts with subject of 'segfaults with 8gig of ram' for more details.)
It seems dual channel will compile a kernel faster, but only gained around 30 seconds over 20 minutes. Below are the shortest/longest compile times of several compiles done over the weekend.
Compile consisted of make menuconfig (save .config) time make dep clean bzImage modules
2 sticks dual channel @800mhz 10 samples ================================ real 791.46 user 664.10 sys 93.85
real 799.88 user 665.30 sys 93.87
4 sticks dual channel @400mhz 5 samples (before it hurled booting) ================================ real 876.19 user 712.98 sys 116.18
real 846.06 user 710.16 sys 115.42
3 sticks single channel @800mhz 6 samples ================================ real 815.74 user 673.73 sys 108.30
real 822.95 user 674.32 sys 108.62