I decided that it would be interesting to compile a page giving an idea of how long it takes to compile a kernel on various machines. That way if you have a machine that you need to compile a kernel on, you can look at this page and decide how many cups of coffee to make.
Both sets of times below are compiling a standard linux-2.4.19 kernel. Configured with the defualts for everything.
vendor_id : !GenuineIntel? cpu family : 6 model : 5 model name : Pentium II (Deschutes) stepping : 2 cpu MHz : 300.686 cache size : 512 KB
make dep real 4m57.320s user 3m13.270s sys 0m23.990s
make bzImage real 15m35.728s user 13m59.330s sys 0m44.490s
make modules real 0m21.513s user 0m12.110s sys 0m0.950s
vendor_id : !GenuineIntel? cpu family : 6 model : 8 model name : Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping : 6 cpu MHz : 800.040 cache size : 256 KB
make dep real 2m25.837s user 1m22.400s sys 0m15.760s
make bzImage real 6m28.837s user 5m29.810s sys 0m30.400s
make modules real 0m7.800s user 0m5.110s sys 0m0.520s
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