From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Oct 7 13:17:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from topperwein.dyndns.org (acs-24-154-28-99.zoominternet.net [24.154.28.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EABBE37B66C for ; Sat, 7 Oct 2000 13:17:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by topperwein.dyndns.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e97KI7g07546 for ; Sat, 7 Oct 2000 16:18:07 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from behanna@zbzoom.net) Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 16:18:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris BeHanna Reply-To: behanna@zbzoom.net To: FreeBSD-Stable Subject: Re: `time make buildworld' In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 7 Oct 2000, Ken Bolingbroke wrote: > On Sat, 7 Oct 2000, Kent Stewart wrote: > > > Ken Bolingbroke wrote: > > > > > > I previously mentioned my adventures upgrading a Pentium 133 from 2.2.5 to > > > 4.1.1, but I'm noting some odd behavior with the length of time it takes > > > to buildworld: > > >... > > > -Running 3.2-S, buildworld to 3.5-S, ~12 hours > > >... > > > -Running 4.1.1-S, buildworld 4.1.1-S, 74 hours, 53 minutes. > > >... > > > So what's happening here? Softupdates slow down buildworld? 4.1.1 does > > > buildworld slower than 3.5 and earlier? Or 4.1.1 buildworld takes a lot > > > longer than earlier versions? Or my system is just weird? > > > > I'm assuming weird up front. I find a 4.1.1 BW takes 36xxu and 1:23 of > > clock time on my P-II 400 with 256MB of memory and UDMA33 HD's. You > > p133 should be about 6x or more slower as a guess. I think your > > differences, based on really minimal information, are probably due to > > the kind of HD's you have and how much memory. > > Someone else just made me think--perhaps 4.1.1 is more sensitive to low > RAM? This machine only has 8meg RAM, with 200 megs of swap evenly split > across two IDE disks. There were no hardware changes between the various > builds. That's probably it. Your machine was constantly thrashing. If you look around, you can still find 72-pin SIMMs (on an auction site, for example). You might think really hard about picking some up. -- Chris BeHanna Software Engineer (at yourfit.com) behanna@zbzoom.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message