From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 14 11:26:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA12580 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 11:26:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from proxyb2.san.rr.com (proxyb2-atm.san.rr.com [204.210.0.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA12446 for ; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 11:26:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Received: from dal.net (dt051n19.san.rr.com [204.210.32.25]) by proxyb2.san.rr.com (8.8.7/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA09285; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 11:24:46 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <34BD10FC.B1F2F20A@dal.net> Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 11:24:44 -0800 From: Studded Organization: DALnet IRC Network X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-0112-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: efinley@castlenet.com CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Make world times References: <34bcf82d.3063632@castlenet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Elliot Finley wrote: > > I am getting a make world time of about 2.5 hours with the complete > 2.2-stable source tree. This is on a PII 233 64M SCSI system. Is > this normal? Is there any way to speed it up? My page has several suggestions on speeding the build process. Your times sound pretty slow based on the processor, but if you have a slow disk that will be a major factor. Take a look at http://home.san.rr.com/freebsd/upgrade.html. Good luck, Doug