Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] VMware questions

[Bruce S. <br...@ar...>]

> I use a "Parallel Compile Jobs" of 2 or 3, depending how I feel on that day.

As a test, I compiled DL 1.3 on a VM.  The difference in elapsed time
was not as great as I expected.

My desktop is a Intel 2.8 HT with 1GB memory.  The compile took 8.6
hours ("time make unpack prepare build install iso dist").

I gave 4GB of memory and (4) 3.0Ghz Xeon CPU's to the Guest VM OS.
I increased "Parallel Compile Jobs" from 1 to 5 and timed it again.
With no other guests running, that timed compile took 7.75 hours.
I expected the VM to compile much faster.

FWIW, my desktop OS is Ubuntu 7.10, the VM OS is CentOS 5.1.

Now I'm curious what my home 2.33 Core 2 duo w/ SuSE 10.3 will do...

 - BS