Fiendish Giggle

New Dell 2950 server. 2 x quad-core Xeons, 2 x 6MB cache on each die, 16GB RAM, 6 x 300GB SAS 10K SCSI drives in a RAID-6 array using the PERC/6 controller.

/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.18# time make -j 9 bzImage
[snip]
Root device is (8, 3)
Boot sector 512 bytes.
Setup is 7295 bytes.
System is 1222 kB
Kernel: arch/i386/boot/bzImage is ready  (#1)

real    0m22.668s
user    2m20.425s
sys     0m14.537s

That's just insane.