tblader wrote: > 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 > > I am putting together a pretty high-end workstation and originally had ordered 2gb sticks. Here's my [main] hardware specs: Abit AB9 QaudGT motherboard Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Seasonic M12 PSU 3 Seagate 250gb SATA II disks Since my main goal is to run VMWare Workstation with host OS Centos 5 (when it comes out), I was originally interested in using 8gb memory. But after posting the following thread on the Abit motherboard forums, I discovered that the Intel P965 Express chipset does not fully support PC6400 (800) DDR2 memory: http://forum.abit-usa.com/showthread.php?t=121720 So I returned that memory and went with 4 1gb sticks of low latency (4-4-3-8) memory instead, trading memory capacity for performance.