[Xorp-users] Compile Time

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I compiled Xorp on 700MZ with 512MB RAM, it took around ~4 hrs 
C++ compilation can be exhaustive. 

On 7/27/05, Pavlin Radoslavov <pavlin@icir.org> wrote:
> > I started compiling Xorp Saturday around noon and the process has not
> > yet completed.  The website does say that it might take up to an hour
> > depending on your CPU speed, but I should note that I don't mean last
> > Saturday - I mean Saturday, July 16 - 11 days ago.
> 
> Wow!
> 
> > It is making progress - I can see it is working on different object
> > files as time goes on.  What kind of processing power does Xorp need
> > to actually run?  I'm starting to wonder if maybe this system can't
> > handle it.  It is a Pentium 233Mhz system running OpenBSD that serves
> > as my router and firewall.
> 
> Typically, we compile it on PCs with 1-2 GHz CPU and usually with
> 512 MB (or more) of RAM.
> 
> For example, on my OpenBSD box at home (1 GHz, 1GB) it takes on the
> order of 1 hour or so to compile XORP.
> 
> How much RAM do you have?
> Could be that you have very small amount of RAM and the compilation
> process is swapping all the time to disk?
> If you get hit by heavy-swapping compilation then I could imagine
> taking days to finish it.
> 
> Pavlin
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