From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 21 9:36:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEAF137B491 for ; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 09:36:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id f1LHaIB03916; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 09:36:18 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 09:36:18 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Robin Cutshaw Cc: Peter Wemm , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Build timings - FreeBSD 4.2 vs. Linux Message-ID: <20010221093617.I6641@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20010219134043.A8347@intercore.com> <200102192021.f1JKLQr61572@mobile.wemm.org> <20010221090207.A11473@intercore.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010221090207.A11473@intercore.com>; from robin@XFree86.Org on Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 09:02:07AM -0500 X-all-your-base: are belong to us. Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Robin Cutshaw [010221 06:07] wrote: > > OK, I set softupdates on the disk/partition that the build source/target > is on. It made no difference in timing. I then created a memory disk, > set softupdates on it, and mounted it as /tmp. AMAZINGLY, the build > went from 2:50 to 0:40, now much faster than the Linux system. I'm > going to do the ram disk thing on Linux and see if it makes a difference. What about just making sure that /tmp and /usr/tmp and /var/tmp are all softupdates enabled? -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message