Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-buildservice (327 mails)

[Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 11:57:00PM +0200, Claudio Freire wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 7:10 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > How do you know ahead of time how long a build process takes, or what it
> > even involves, in order to be able to determine where 50% is?
>
> While technically true, there's ways to approximate.

Really?  How do you do so for something as "simple" as building the
Linux kernel?

> Since, technically, most files takes roughly the same amount of time
> to compile. And, technically, abnormally costly files tend to be
> randomly spread. So if you count percentage by number of tasks to run
> (number of files to build), it usually works out fine.

How can you count the number of files to build ahead of time?

thanks,

greg k-h
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