From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Oct 7 17: 4:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.hiwaay.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8FB237B679 for ; Sat, 7 Oct 2000 17:04:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt6-216-180-4-58.dialup.HiWAAY.net [216.180.4.58]) by mail.hiwaay.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e98046727059; Sat, 7 Oct 2000 19:04:06 -0500 (CDT) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e9802ma83795; Sat, 7 Oct 2000 19:02:48 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Message-Id: <200010080002.e9802ma83795@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Jordan Hubbard Cc: Warner Losh , FreeBSD Stable From: David Kelly Subject: Re: `time make buildworld' In-reply-to: Message from Jordan Hubbard of "Sat, 07 Oct 2000 16:53:58 PDT." <95021.970962838@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 19:02:48 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jordan Hubbard writes: > I think you should keep it around as a data point for the worldstone benchmark. > We could have your machine's value as the low-end reference point. :) I let it run for at least 10 days trying (I gave up, it was still crunching) to buildworld via NFS once. Or was that 40 days? Its been a long time. Guess I should fire it up connected to a UPS and find out. And one day we may also find the definitive answer as to "How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie-Pop(tm)?" > > Warner Losh writes: > > > On a 8MB system, I'd recommend against softupdates. They need a lot > > > of RAM to be useful. > > > > I have a 4MB 386SX16 with 2.something on it. Should I upgrade? :-) > > OS I mean, not the hardware. Keep that old think laying around for > > laughs, its bigger than a laptop but in similar package. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message