Computing resources required for kernel development

[Harsh chopra]

I used
make -j2 all

On Sun, 31 May 2020, 00:14 Suraj Upadhyay, <usuraj35 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Sat 30 May, 2020, 20:57 Harsh chopra, <serviceprovider.tester at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>> I have been following the Kernel Hacking steps to submit my first patch
>> but I am facing problem in the kernel compilation as its taking more than a
>> day may be due to low computing resources..
>> I have Ubuntu 20.04 LTS with 4GB  DDR3 ram 1 TB HDD, Intel i3  2.GHZ and
>> 4 cores but I have been using virt-manager for the kernel development with
>> CentOS 8.1 (minimal req.) and  resources 70 GB storage, 2 GB ram and 2
>> cores.
>>
> Thus if anyone could suggest how much computing power to have or any other
>> method so that I could make my development process smooth.
>>
>
> The configurations of your pc are fine.
>
> My personal computer has the same specs with a slight difference that I
> have 12 GiBs of main memory.
>
> I had the same problem in the beginning (tho I started only a few months
> ago).
>
> I suggest you use `make -j4` or a higher number for compilation.
>
> And now my system does the compilation in less than 30 minutes.
>
> What options are you using while building the kernel ??
>
>
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